• Literary Criticism

    Utopias

    Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  May 17, 2023
    On Poetry

    “I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

    By Jane Wong  May 17, 2023
    Writing Place

    Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

    By Breanne Mc Ivor  May 17, 2023
    The Hub

    Expand your international reading with all 37 entries of the Eurovision Book Contest.

    By Eliza Smith  May 16, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    24 new books to check out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 16, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 16, 2023
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   May 16, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

    By Literary Hub  May 16, 2023
    Defying Genre

    The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

    By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith  May 16, 2023
    French literature

    Outsider Paris: A Reading List of the Dark Side of the City of Light

    By Celia Bell  May 16, 2023
    Talk Easy

    “I Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Poetry.” Rupi Kaur on Life After milk & honey

    By Talk Easy  May 16, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Matthew Binder on Making Sense of an Absurd World

    By D. Foy  May 16, 2023
    Write-minded

    Charif Shanahan: The Mystery Is the Clarity

    By Write-minded   May 16, 2023
    First Draft

    Abraham Verghese on Medicine’s Innate Connection to Storytelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 15, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

    By Elizabeth Winkler  May 15, 2023
    History of Literature

    Alison Strayer on the Oeuvre of Annie Ernaux and Translating Her Legacy

    By History of Literature  May 15, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Don’t Boss It Around: Abigail Thomas on Writer’s Block, Confronting Fear, and the Joys of Aging

    By Mira Ptacin  May 15, 2023
    On Translation

    Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

    By Tim Mohr  May 15, 2023
    Mother's Day

    How To Write About Your Mother

    By Terry McDonell  May 12, 2023
    Romance

    Against the Struggling Single Mom Trope in Romance Novels

    By Rosalynn Tyo  May 12, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

    By Sam Leith  May 12, 2023
    Mother's Day

    “They Are the Mothers!” From Goethe to Cusk, Halting Progress for Moms

    By Jennifer Banks  May 12, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 12, 2023
    What to Watch

    Why Does Hollywood Keep Returning to Peter Pan?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  May 12, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Five Devils is a Cinematic Gothic Novel for the Contemporary Age

    By Laura Valenza  May 12, 2023
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