• Literary Criticism

    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground Reveals the World by Breaking Its Boundaries

    By Charles Yu  May 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephen Marche Explains Why Technologies Like ChatGPT Will Make Creators More Valuable Than Ever

    By Keen On  May 11, 2023
    Close Readings

    The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River

    By John N. Maclean  May 11, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 11, 2023
    Otherppl

    Isabella Hammad on Finding Inspiration in Hamlet

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 11, 2023
    The Maris Review

    A Kind of Mutuality: Christina Sharpe on the Importance of Regard

    By The Maris Review  May 11, 2023
    Reading Lists

    What We’re Reading at Just the Right Book This Week

    By Just the Right Book   May 11, 2023
    Art History

    On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

    By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
    On Theater

    How Hamnet the Play Rehabilitates Shakespeare’s Wife

    By Andrew Quintana  May 10, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

    By Jo Baker  May 10, 2023
    Songwriting

    Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

    By Warren Zanes  May 10, 2023
    Catholicism

    Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
    Otherppl

    Dave Eggers: “The Freedom of the Artist Has to Be Absolute.”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 10, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Joanne Harris Reads from Her New Thriller Broken Light

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  May 10, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    21 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 9, 2023
    Hollywood

    Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

    By Landon Y. Jones  May 9, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

    By Talk Easy  May 9, 2023
    Artists in Conversation

    Ada Zhang on the Complexity of Capturing Immigrants’ Lives in Fiction

    By Belinda Huijuan Tang  May 9, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  May 9, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration

    By I'm a Writer But   May 9, 2023
    Write-minded

    Joe Biel on Pushing Boundaries in Book Publishing

    By Write-minded   May 9, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Brendan Slocumb on Diving Into the World of Musicology for His New Historical Musical Thriller

    By So Many Damn Books  May 9, 2023
    Horror

    What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing Horror

    By Nicholas Binge  May 8, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

    By Jeff VanderMeer  May 8, 2023
    Behind the novel

    On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

    By Buzzy Jackson  May 8, 2023
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