• Features

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Rebecca Makkai on Progress, Misogyny, and #MeToo

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 12, 2023
    Keen On

    Vincent Schiraldi on the Illusions of the American Criminal Justice System

    By Keen On  October 12, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 12, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

    By Arwen Curry  October 11, 2023
    literary criticism

    The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 11, 2023
    Cancer

    How to Write a Memoir While Dying

    By Dan O'Brien  October 11, 2023
    Medieval History

    Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

    By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
    Horror

    How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

    By Alexandra Dos Santos  October 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Andy Mitchell on the Future of Psychedelics

    By Keen On  October 11, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

    By Talk Easy  October 11, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Jennifer Baker on Hoping Her Book Will Help Teens

    By So Many Damn Books  October 11, 2023
    On Translation

    Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
    Australian Literature

    Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

    By Rumaan Alam  October 10, 2023
    In Conversation

    Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

    By Laura van den Berg  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

    By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 10, 2023
    First Draft

    Daniel Magariel on the Trouble with Titles

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 10, 2023
    Write-minded

    Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

    By Memoir Nation   October 10, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    E.J. Koh on the Connection Between Her Memoir and Her Novel

    By I'm a Writer But   October 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

    By Keen On  October 10, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    A Short Story from Masatsugu Ono and Emergence Magazine

    By Emergence Magazine  October 10, 2023
    Profiles

    Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

    By Adam Dalva  October 9, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos’ Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

    By Ann Patchett  October 9, 2023
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