• Literary Criticism

    Neuroscience

    The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

    By Adrian Johns  April 7, 2023
    Theater

    When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

    By Nancy Schoenberger  April 7, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

    By Jane Roper  April 7, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Dan Sheehan  April 7, 2023
    Spirituality

    Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

    By Christiana Spens  April 7, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    A Passion for Living in the Present:
    A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

    By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda  April 6, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 6, 2023
    Fairy Tales

    Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

    By Jack Zipes  April 6, 2023
    Colonialism

    Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

    By Nandini Das  April 6, 2023
    Otherppl

    Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 6, 2023
    Catholicism

    Power and Resistance in the Catholic Church: A Reading List

    By Mary Jo McConahay  April 6, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 6, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Diana Janney on the Philosophical Foundations of Her Fiction

    By Keen On  April 6, 2023
    On Translation

    Spokesperson, Intellectual, and… More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

    By Lawrence Venuti  April 5, 2023
    On Grief

    Nicole Chung on Writing Through Grief and How to Begin Again

    By Hannah Bae  April 5, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Procrastination or Research? Curtis Sittenfeld Clicks Over to Celebrity Gossip While Writing

    By Literary Hub  April 5, 2023
    Workshop

    Intrigue, Not Critique: On the “Portrait of the Artist” Feedback Model

    By Florence Gonsalves and Matthew Vollmer  April 5, 2023
    Humanism

    Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

    By Sarah Bakewell  April 5, 2023
    The Literary Salon

    Max Porter Reads from His New Novel Shy

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  April 5, 2023
    Thresholds

    J Wortham on the Power of Changes

    By Thresholds   April 5, 2023
    On Poetry

    Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, and the Surprising Power of “Once Upon a Time”

    By Matthew Zapruder  April 5, 2023
    Experimental Memoir

    Time and Materials: On the Art of the Experimental Memoir

    By John West  April 5, 2023
    new books tuesday

    23 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 4, 2023
    Trees

    Another World is Possible: On the Universal Language of Trees

    By Katie Holten  April 4, 2023
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