• Features

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 10, 2025
    Language

    Cushty, Prat, Cowson… and Other British Terms I Can No Longer Say in America

    By Christopher J. Yates  July 9, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

    By Peter Balakian  July 9, 2025
    On Translation

    Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 9, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

    By Margot Singer  July 9, 2025
    In Conversation

    Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 8, 2025
    Literary History

    Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

    By Sam Kelly  July 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  July 8, 2025
    Prison

    Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2025
    craft advice

    Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story

    By Lidija Hilje  July 8, 2025
    Untranslation

    No Translation, No Problem:
    The Joys of Reading a Book Containing Multiple Languages

    By Rachel Ashcroft  July 7, 2025
    Violence

    How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

    By Will Potter  July 7, 2025
    Dance

    Dancing with Frank O’Hara: How Lunch Dances Breaks the Library’s Sacred Silence

    By Brian Schaefer  July 7, 2025
    American History

    On America’s First Highway: Preparing For a Trip Along the Great Wagon Road

    By James Dodson  July 7, 2025
    First Draft

    Andrew Porter on What Unites His Work

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 7, 2025
    Write-minded

    Prabal Gurang on Why No Outside Validation Is Needed

    By Memoir Nation   July 7, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

    By Dan Leach  July 3, 2025
    Activism

    What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

    By Suzanne Cope  July 3, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

    By Clarence A. Haynes  July 3, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 3, 2025
    Plot

    Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 3, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 3, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

    By James Folta  July 2, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
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