Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 18, 2022

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

Aaron Angello on the Stillness of the Imaginative Mind

By Aaron Angello | May 18, 2022

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | May 18, 2022

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

19 new books to savor this week.

19 new books to savor this week.

By Katie Yee | May 17, 2022

Best Reviewed
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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

By Nicole Miller | May 17, 2022

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

By Victoria Shorr | May 17, 2022

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

By Jane Ciabattari | May 17, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2022

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

Steven Toussaint Considers the Melding of Ambivalence and Political Commitment

By Steven Toussaint | May 16, 2022

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to <em>Bridgerton</em>

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

Hilary A. Hallett on Reclaiming “Trashy” Romances

By Hilary A. Hallett | May 16, 2022

Shelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at South Main Book Company

Shelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at South Main Book Company

Owner Alissa Redmond Shares Her Favorites

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2022

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Dreams

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Dreams

Featuring Claire Messud, Julia May Jonas, Jean Chen Ho, Emily Maloney, and Daphne Palasi Andreades

By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2022

Hulu’s <em>Conversations with Friends</em> Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Hulu’s Conversations with Friends Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Nylah Burton on the Newest Addition to the Sally Rooneyverse

By Nylah Burton | May 13, 2022

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

Douglas Crase on the Famously Inscrutable Poet

By Douglas Crase | May 13, 2022

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