• Features

    Book Covers

    The 14 Best Book Covers of January

    By Emily Temple  January 30, 2025
    Poetry

    “Intimacy” and “Endurance,” Two Poems by Maria Ferguson

    By Maria Ferguson  January 30, 2025
    Storytelling

    What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

    By Lea Carpenter  January 30, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 30, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 30, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

    By Deni Ellis Béchard  January 29, 2025
    Graphic Memoir

    More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

    By Kay Sohini  January 29, 2025
    Ethics

    Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

    By Jeff Sebo  January 29, 2025
    Globalization

    Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

    By Robert D. Kaplan  January 29, 2025
    Biography

    How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

    By Ruth Franklin  January 29, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    André Alexis on Martha Baillie’s There Is No Blue

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   January 29, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

    By Dorian Lynskey  January 28, 2025
    Desire

    Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

    By Edmund White  January 28, 2025
    African American Literature

    How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    By Scott W. Stern  January 28, 2025
    Poetry

    “In the Name of the Bee,” a Poem by Pádraig O’ Tuama

    By Pádraig Ó' Tuama  January 28, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

    By The Critic and Her Publics   January 28, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   January 27, 2025
    Anarchy and Art

    “Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

    By Ed Simon  January 27, 2025
    TV

    Severance is a Realist Manifesto for the 21st Century

    By Joel Cuthbertson  January 27, 2025
    Book Design

    On Trying (and Really Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover

    By Mary Childs  January 27, 2025
    Storytelling

    Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

    By Jay Nicorvo  January 27, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in The Shining

    By Maggie Su  January 27, 2025
    First Draft

    Alan Shapiro on Inspiration

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 27, 2025
    Write-minded

    Connie Hale and Ellen Sussman on Writing Retreats

    By Write-minded   January 27, 2025
    Masculinity

    Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not Reading Novels

    By James Folta  January 24, 2025
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