• Features

    Walking

    How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought

    By Annabel Abbs  February 19, 2025
    Women Writers

    Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

    By Rebecca Romney  February 19, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Elyse Durham  February 19, 2025
    Storytelling

    Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

    By Nick Newman  February 19, 2025
    Migration

    How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

    By Yoni Appelbaum  February 19, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

    By Emily J. Smith  February 19, 2025
    In Conversation

    Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

    By Aaron Robertson  February 19, 2025
    Austen

    Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives:
    A Reading List

    By Rebecca Romney  February 18, 2025
    Feminism

    Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

    By Haley Mlotek  February 18, 2025
    Feminism

    How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

    By Sophie Lewis  February 18, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 18, 2025
    Narrators

    Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

    By Sarah Lyn Rogers  February 18, 2025
    Awakeners

    T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

    By Awakeners   February 18, 2025
    First Draft

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Entering into a Lineage

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 18, 2025
    Write-minded

    Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

    By Write-minded   February 18, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  February 14, 2025
    In Conversation

    “Only That Which Does Not Teach Is Irresistible.” Charlotte Wood on Faith, Mortality, and Her Booker-Shortlisted Novel

    By Eric Olson  February 14, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Tips for Dating Apps and Starting Bookstores

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   February 14, 2025
    Music history

    From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

    By David Hajdu  February 14, 2025
    Illustrations

    From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

    By Sam Mills  February 14, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

    By Roisín O'Donnell  February 14, 2025
    Anti-Blackness

    How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

    By Chad Sanders  February 14, 2025
    Poetry

    “Joined To All The Living There Is Hope,” a Poem by Jonathan Fink

    By Jonathan Fink  February 14, 2025
    Haiti

    Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

    By Rich Benjamin  February 13, 2025
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