The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

Lisa Yaszek on the Woman Known as Francis Stevens, an Early Female Pioneer of American Genre Fiction

By Lisa Yaszek | September 18, 2024

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard

By David Browne | September 18, 2024

Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey

Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey

Christopher Brown Explores Our Complex Relationships With the Wild Creatures That Share Our Urban Space

By Christopher Brown | September 18, 2024

Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

Rachel Schwartzmann Allows Herself to Write and Live More Slowly and to Learn from Her Typos

By Rachel Schwartzmann | September 18, 2024

Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Entitlement”

By Jane Ciabattari | September 17, 2024

For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

The Author of “Rejection” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 17, 2024

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Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

By Timothy Snyder | September 17, 2024

A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

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Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

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Between the Lines: What Is Missing in the Diversity in Publishing Discourse

Between the Lines: What Is Missing in the Diversity in Publishing Discourse

Thomas Gebremedhin Considers Text and Subtext in the Publishing Industry

By Thomas Gebremedhin | September 17, 2024

Community and Connection: On the Unexpected Benefits of Publishing Through a Small Press

Community and Connection: On the Unexpected Benefits of Publishing Through a Small Press

Rilla Askew Finds Her Audience with the Help of Indies After the Shuttering of Small Press Distribution

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How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

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Jason Stanley on the Ongoing Fight Against Creeping Fascism in American Schools

By Jason Stanley | September 16, 2024

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

The Author of “Question 7” Remembers His Father’s Imprisonment at Ohama Camp

By Richard Flanagan | September 16, 2024

Consent and Power: On Age Gaps in the Context of Queer Relationships

Consent and Power: On Age Gaps in the Context of Queer Relationships

"To be a woman, even a woman in a position of power, means an erasure of agency, even the agency to harm. For better or worse, we were both invisible."

By Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers | September 16, 2024

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Nicholas Delbanco Remembers the Living and Dead Who Passed Through the Bennington Writing Seminars

By Nicholas Delbanco | September 16, 2024

Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner on Rejection

Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner on Rejection

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By Memoir Nation | September 16, 2024

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