• Literary Criticism

    Literary Nemeses

    What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

    By Jen Corrigan  June 18, 2019
    Adaptations

    How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

    By Rebecca Renner  June 18, 2019
    Writing Life

    What Anne Sexton Taught Me About… Self-Promotion

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 18, 2019
    Kafka

    “Franz Kafka” the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

    By Renée Reizman  June 18, 2019
    Nigerian Literature

    How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

    By Nnamdi Ehirim  June 18, 2019
    Summer reading

    20 “Perfect Summer Books” for This and Every Year

    By Emily Temple  June 17, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
    Animals

    How to Eulogize an Animal

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

    By Jaime Fuller  June 11, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Nicole Dennis-Benn, Domenica Ruta, and More Take the LitHub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  June 11, 2019
    Black Bodies

    On Alabama’s Dark History of Brutalizing Black Women’s Bodies

    By Camille T. Dungy  June 11, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Life and Death and the Oldest Living Thing in Pennsylvania

    By Barbara Hurd  June 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won’t Die

    By Lauren Markham  June 10, 2019
    Disappearing Archives

    Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

    By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
    Science fiction

    Why We Write About This Thing Called the Future

    By Naomi Alderman  June 7, 2019
    Dystopias

    With Apologies to Orwell, We’ve Gone Way Past 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 7, 2019
    Literary History

    Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 7, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Case Against R. Kelly is
    a Case Against Us

    By Treva Lindsey  June 6, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

    By Jay Parini  June 6, 2019
    Dystopias

    70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

    By John Rodden  June 5, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Becoming a Writer in the Middle of War

    By Hanan al-Shaykh  June 5, 2019
    Literary History

    Pablo Neruda’s Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

    By Jamie James  June 3, 2019
    Rabbit Holes

    A Kafkaesque List of Things Described as Kafkaesque

    By Emily Temple  June 3, 2019
    Dictators

    The Dark Side of the
    Chinese Dream

    By Ma Jian  June 3, 2019
    Economics

    How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

    By Lisa Duggan  May 31, 2019
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