• Literary Criticism

    The History of Literature

    How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

    By History of Literature  May 8, 2023
    First Draft

    Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Eight Mountains is a Testament to the Directors’ Commitment to the Story

    By Elissa Suh  May 5, 2023
    Offices

    Copiers, Cubicles and Colleagues: A Reading List of Office Novels

    By Tania Malik  May 5, 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 5, 2023
    Writers on Writers

    The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

    By Helen Oyeyemi  May 4, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Alice Oseman on Asexuality, Authentic Storytelling and Book Banning

    By Keen On  May 4, 2023
    Banned Books

    On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

    By Mark Dunn  May 4, 2023
    The Hub

    This is how you publicize the reissue of a classic dystopian novel.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 3, 2023
    Nature Writing

    Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

    By Lauren LeBlanc  May 3, 2023
    Race

    Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of “Passing” in America

    By Herb Harris  May 3, 2023
    Criticism

    “Every Border is a Story.” On Dividing Lines Both Real and Imagined

    By James Crawford  May 3, 2023
    The Writing Life

    “It’s Not All Over…” On Persisting in Writing and in Life

    By Mark Ernest Pothier  May 3, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Hannah Matthews is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Angeline Boulley on the Need to Get Beyond Trauma in Native Literature

    By Keen On  May 3, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Moïra Fowley Reads from Her New Story Collection Eyes Guts Throat Bones

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  May 3, 2023
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Darran Anderson on the Ever-Shifting Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   May 2, 2023
    Talk Easy

    “Maybe This Means Something.” Min Jin Lee on Vulnerability and Audacity, in Life and on the Page

    By Talk Easy  May 2, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Has Respect for a Tough Edit

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    T.C. Boyle on Surviving and Satirizing the Climate Crisis

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 2, 2023
    In Conversation

    Edmund White on the Power of Destabilizing His Readers

    By Damon Galgut  May 2, 2023
    Cultural Identity

    The Untold History of the “Asian American” Identity

    By Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu  May 2, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    John Milas on the Specificity of Terror 

    By I'm a Writer But   May 2, 2023
    Write-minded

    Rebecca Carroll on Writing About Family with Honesty

    By Write-minded   May 2, 2023
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