• Literary Criticism

    Mathematics

    The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

    By Sarah Hart  April 12, 2023
    Thresholds

    Taking Care: Gina Chung on Fostering a Long-Haul Creative Practice

    By Thresholds   April 12, 2023
    Teachers

    Alexandra Robbins Wants More Books Written From the Teacher’s Point of View

    By Alexandra Robbins  April 12, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Joanna Margaret Reads from Her Debut Novel The Bequest

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  April 12, 2023
    Aging

    Juliette Fay on Writing Complex Older Protagonists

    By Juliette Fay  April 12, 2023
    Writing About Disability

    Losing My Hearing Showed Me a New Way to Write About the Self

    By John Cotter  April 11, 2023
    Otherppl

    “There is So Much Material Within the Human Race.” Tara Conklin on Writing Funny

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 11, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 11, 2023
    History of Literature

    Is Persuasion the Perfect Novel?

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2023
    new books tuesday

    25 new books coming out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Jinwoo Chong on Executing an Ambitious Book Project

    By Write-minded   April 11, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “It Was a Skeleton of a Book.” Marisa Crane on World-Building in Their Debut Novel 

    By I'm a Writer But   April 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Novelist Juliette Fay Explains Why Regret is Such Fertile Territory for Fiction Writers

    By Keen On  April 11, 2023
    Sentences

    Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

    By Ed Simon  April 10, 2023
    Poets

    Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

    By Joy Harjo  April 10, 2023
    First Draft

    Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 10, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

    By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
    On Poetry

    Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

    By Literary Hub  April 10, 2023
    Librarians

    The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

    By Blair Austin  April 10, 2023
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    By Literary Hub  April 7, 2023
    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
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