• Features

    NewberyTart

    Tracking Character Growth in Ellen Raskin’s Beloved Children’s Novel The Westing Game

    By NewberyTart   September 28, 2022
    Nazi Germany

    What Was Germany Like in the Decade After Hitler?

    By Harald Jähner  September 28, 2022
    On Racism

    How White Supremacy Was Codified Into Law in America

    By Margaret A. Burnham  September 28, 2022
    Otherppl

    Chelsea Martin on Accepting Her Writing Voice

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 28, 2022
    The Literary Salon

    Michael Pedersen Reads from Boy Friends

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 28, 2022
    Keen On

    A Profane, Insane, Hilarious, and Disgusting Horror Novel About a Mother-In-Law from Hell

    By Keen On  September 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Elsie Robinson, the Most Popular American Woman Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Keen On  September 28, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Listen to a Performance of No-No Boy, Based on the Novel by John Okada

    By Audiobook Break  September 28, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Bad City by Paul Pringle, Read by Robert Petkoff

    By Behind the Mic   September 28, 2022
    Environmentalism

    Annie Proulx on the Lost Ecological Paradise of the English Fenlands

    By Annie Proulx  September 27, 2022
    Diaries

    Annie Ernaux on the “Infinite Lack” in Our Search for Love

    By Annie Ernaux  September 27, 2022
    Memoir

    Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

    By Kamila Shamsie  September 27, 2022
    Ukrainian Literature

    On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

    By Isaac Babel  September 27, 2022
    Literary History

    What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

    By Giles Tremlett  September 27, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 27, 2022
    On Translation

    Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

    By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman  September 27, 2022
    Grief

    Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

    By Juliet Patterson  September 27, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Simon Jacobs on Writing Horror and Nailing Tone

    By I'm a Writer But   September 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today

    By Keen On  September 27, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Playwright Jeanne Sakata on the Importance of Hold These Truths

    By Audiobook Break  September 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Richard Reeves Identifies Today’s Crisis of Masculinity and Explains How to Fix It

    By Keen On  September 27, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Hold These Truths Act I and II: On Gordon Hirabayashi’s Courageous Stand

    By Audiobook Break  September 27, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Read by Jennette McCurdy

    By Behind the Mic   September 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the First Lady of Sales Believes the Word “Sales” is Cringeworthy

    By Keen On  September 27, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2022
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