Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”

By Lynn Steger Strong | April 7, 2025

Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 7, 2025

Write-Minded on Miranda July's <em>All Fours</em>

Write-Minded on Miranda July's All Fours

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | April 7, 2025

The University <em>is the Crisis</em>: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul

The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul

“In real-life Trump America, critical thought and political speech are shuttered in service of a belligerent agenda.”

By Shana L. Redmond | April 4, 2025

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

“The mistake, in fact, is a gift. The break, or breakdown, allows for a breakthrough.”

By Maggie Smith | April 4, 2025

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

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

Featuring David Szalay, Elaine Pagels, Joe Dunthorne, and More

By Book Marks | April 4, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

By Crystal Hana Kim | April 4, 2025

“The Bible as Literature,” a Poem by Amy Gerstler

By Amy Gerstler | April 4, 2025

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov

Featuring Adam Colman, Molly Odintz, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 4, 2025

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | April 3, 2025

The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

Thor Hanson on the Joys of Slowing Down and Discovering the Unknown In the Familiar

By Thor Hanson | April 3, 2025

What We Can Learn About Death and the Afterlife From the Earliest Humans

What We Can Learn About Death and the Afterlife From the Earliest Humans

Robert Garland Explores the Mourning Rituals and Burial Practices of the Prehistoric and Ancient Past

By Robert Garland | April 3, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Elise Hooper: “In a world that feels increasingly troubling and out of control, the dollhouse is where my mother and I are at our best together.”

By Elise Hooper | April 3, 2025

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