• Features

    Book Dreams

    Ian Urbina on the Lawlessness of the High Seas

    By Book Dreams  February 10, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Unprotected by Billy Porter, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   February 10, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Was the Battle of Manila Necessary?

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   February 10, 2022
    Skateboarding

    How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  February 9, 2022
    Psychology

    How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

    By Moshe Bar  February 9, 2022
    Nature Writing

    How Rachel Carson Carved Out a Space to Become a Full-Time Writer

    By James R. Gaines  February 9, 2022
    What to Watch

    On the Coen Brothers’ Bitter, Brokenhearted Noir,
    Miller’s Crossing

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 9, 2022
    Thresholds

    Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

    By Thresholds   February 9, 2022
    Memoir

    Georgia Pritchett Recounts a TV Industry #MeToo Experience in Three Acts, with No Closure

    By Georgia Pritchett  February 9, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2022
    Underreported

    Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 9, 2022
    Climate Change

    Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

    By Martin Puchner  February 9, 2022
    The Literary Salon

    Charmaine Wilkerson Reads from Black Cake, Her Debut Novel About Estranged Siblings

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  February 9, 2022
    Blues

    On Clarence Major’s Enduring Portrait of the Blues, Dirty Bird Blues

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  February 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Colette Brooks on the Dangers of Misremembering Our Past

    By Keen On  February 9, 2022
    Keen On

    A.J. Baime on Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret

    By Keen On  February 9, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins, Read by Barrie Kreinik

    By Behind the Mic   February 9, 2022
    Good Sex

    Some Fundamental Principles for Writing Great Sex

    By Bee Sacks  February 8, 2022
    Love

    What Has COVID Done to Our Romantic Relationships?

    By Laura Kipnis  February 8, 2022
    Close Reading

    Jean Rhys’ Women on the Margins: On the Perpetual Resonance of Voyage in the Dark

    By Imogen Crimp  February 8, 2022
    Film

    Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Fell Flat in Chinese Theaters

    By Erich Schwartzel  February 8, 2022
    Poetry

    “Little Shields, in Starlight”

    By Carl Phillips  February 8, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    “Every Time You Eat a Bagel It’s a Fuckin’ Crime.” Liv Stratman on Writing About Diet Culture

    By I'm a Writer But   February 8, 2022
    Classic Reviews

    The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul:
    On Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

    By Book Marks  February 8, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 8, 2022
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