• Features

    First Draft

    “Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 20, 2023
    Muses

    When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

    By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    What Survives —Lacy M. Johnson Examines the Aftermath of Disaster

    By Emergence Magazine  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Tiffany Shlain on the History of Feminism, Tree Rings, and “Dendrofemonology”

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

    By History of Literature  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Peter Wehner on Vengeance, Forbearance, and Healing in Trump’s America

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Monica C. Parker on the Extraordinary Emotion That can Change the Way We Live: Wonder

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    What to Watch

    Lucky Hank is an Exhausted Academic Satire

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 17, 2023
    Animals

    On the Ethics of Preserving—and Cutting Short—the Life of a Pet

    By Karen Fine  March 17, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Kate DiCamillo on Seeing Her Book, The Magician’s Elephant, Adapted for Film

    By Kate DiCamillo  March 17, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Idra Novey on the Conjuring of Haunting Characters

    By Idra Novey  March 17, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 17, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  March 17, 2023
    Trauma

    What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

    By Judith L. Herman  March 17, 2023
    Life in a Pandemic

    Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison

    By Murong Xuecun  March 17, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Readings and Conversation with the NBF 2022 5 Under 35 Honorees

    By The Literary Life  March 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Neil Gross on Three Police Chiefs Who Defied the Odds and Changed American Cop Culture

    By Keen On  March 17, 2023
    Forensics

    In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

    By Alexa Hagerty  March 16, 2023
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 16, 2023
    Friendship

    Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater

    By Sarah Ruhl  March 16, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 16, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

    By Natalie Jenner and Jennifer Rosner  March 16, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week

    By Just the Right Book   March 16, 2023
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