• Features

    Grants

    To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

    By Marian Crotty  October 17, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 17, 2024
    Science!

    The Power and Possibility of Play: Why Science Is More Than Just Facts and Equations

    By Kelsey Johnson  October 16, 2024
    Libraries

    Brittany Rogers on How Libraries Helped Her Feel Safe and Embrace Her Queerness

    By Brittany Rogers  October 16, 2024
    American Empire

    Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

    By Noam Chomsky  October 16, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Mosab Abu Toha Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  October 16, 2024
    Language

    Language, Loss and Nostalgia: On Growing Old As a Learning Experience

    By Julie Sedivy  October 16, 2024
    Desire

    The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

    By Kate Hamilton  October 16, 2024
    craft advice

    No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

    By John Larison  October 16, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    Kim Kelly: Why the American Labor Movement Matters

    By Kim Kelly  October 15, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    10 of the Best Books on the History of American Labor

    By Literary Hub  October 15, 2024
    Cooking

    Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

    By Anthony Bourdain  October 15, 2024
    Community

    A Fleeting Utopia: The Rise and Fall of the “Women’s Hotel” in American Cities

    By Daniel M. Lavery  October 15, 2024
    Poetry

    “relativity,” a poem by Danez Smith

    By Danez Smith  October 15, 2024
    literary criticism

    “A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

    By Joyce Carol Oates  October 15, 2024
    Sisters

    Maira Kalman on Losing a Sister to Forced Separation

    By Maira Kalman  October 15, 2024
    First Draft

    Elizabeth Strout on Complicated People

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 15, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    IAWB Presents 90s Book Club: Jane Shapiro with Sara Levine

    By I'm a Writer But   October 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Writing to Champion People and Causes

    By Write-minded   October 15, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 11, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

    A Beastly Love: Chronicling the Transformative Experience of Motherhood on the Page and on the Screen

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2024
    Indigenous History

    Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins

    By Russell Cobb  October 11, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

    By Cherry Lou Sy  October 11, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression

    By Mark Haber  October 11, 2024
    Craft

    Choreographing Shows and Scenes: What Dance Can Teach Fiction Writers

    By Shelley Noble  October 11, 2024
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