• Craft and Criticism

    Short Stories

    Everything is Connected: A Reading List of Linked Stories

    By Shannon Bowring  June 7, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Alice Ryan Reads from Her Debut Novel There’s Been a Little Incident

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  June 7, 2023
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2023 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 6, 2023
    Criticism

    How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other

    By Jane Smiley  June 6, 2023
    Anthropology

    Is Ice America’s Most Literary Element?

    By Amy Brady  June 6, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Hilton Als on Why Joan Didion and James Baldwin Stand Side-by-Side on His Bookshelf

    By Talk Easy  June 6, 2023
    On Writing

    It’s Okay to Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Your Writing

    By Katie Williams  June 6, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Andre Dubus III Beats Writer’s Block By Asking the Right Questions

    By Literary Hub  June 6, 2023
    Russian Literature

    The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic

    By Paul Goldberg  June 6, 2023
    The Cosmic Library

    An Introduction to Journey to the West, the 16th-Century Chinese Novel of Comic Mischief and Spirituality

    By The Cosmic Library   June 6, 2023
    Read Smart

    Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

    By Read Smart  June 6, 2023
    Write-minded

    Nicole Chung on Stories That Must Be Told

    By Write-minded   June 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Siena Sterling on Twisted Plots, Twisted People, and Twisted Writers Like Highsmith and Dostoevsky

    By Keen On  June 6, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    29 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 6, 2023
    On Craft

    Revise, Revise! Anna Badkhen on the Joys of Revision

    By Anna Badkhen  June 5, 2023
    New Poetry

    7 New Poetry Collections to Read in June

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  June 5, 2023
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Read in June

    By Natalie Zutter  June 5, 2023
    Rereadings

    Why The Turn of the Screw Haunts Us 125 Years Later

    By Kate Griffin  June 5, 2023
    The Writing Life

    The Most Important Formerly Homeless American Writer Needs Help

    By Dan Simon  June 5, 2023
    First Draft

    “I Tried To Be Witness to Him.” Sebastian Barry on Writing Characters That Have Survived Trauma

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 5, 2023
    Italian Literature

    Alexander Chee Recommends Natalia Ginzburg’s Novella Valentino

    By Alexander Chee  June 5, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

    By History of Literature  June 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard

    By Lucy Scholes  June 2, 2023
    What to Watch

    A Guide to the 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s Literary Offerings

    By Jihane Bousfiha  June 2, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

    By Luis Alberto Urrea  June 2, 2023
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