• Features

    First Draft

    Mateo Askaripour on Maintaining Plausibility in an Absurd World

    By WMFA   January 13, 2021
    Boredom

    On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

    By Martha Cooley  January 13, 2021
    Politics

    What Joe Biden Can Learn from Machiavelli After the Capitol Raid

    By Keen On  January 13, 2021
    Literary Disco

    George Saunders on How to Avoid Becoming a Hack

    By Literary Disco  January 13, 2021
    Otherppl

    Gil Adamson on How to Tackle the Gargantuan Task of Writing a Historical Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    NewberyTart

    What Makes a Teachable YA Book? When It Shows Teens to Think for Themselves

    By NewberyTart   January 13, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Silences So Deep by John Luther Adams, Read by Jim Meskimen

    By Behind the Mic   January 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    George Saunders on the Songs (and Stories) He Can’t Live Without

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    Ten Years, Seven Houses: The Wandering Life of the Itinerant Writer

    By Sarah Moss  January 12, 2021
    Politics

    Who Gets to Tell the Story of
    the Midwest?

    By Amanda Page  January 12, 2021
    2021

    Your 2021 Literary Events Calendar

    By Emily Temple  January 12, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Reality Behind Shirley Jackson’s Haunted Stories

    By Lit Century   January 12, 2021
    On Race

    On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

    By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    Politics

    Koa Beck on What ‘Feminist’ Settings Are Too Often Missing

    By Corinne Segal  January 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Turns Out We Have Perfectly Good Evolutionary Reasons to Avoid Exercise

    By Keen On  January 12, 2021
    On Translation

    How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

    By Will Schutt  January 12, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Medieval Invention of Travel Writing

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   January 12, 2021
    Storybound

    Paul Lisicky Performs an Excerpt from His Memoir Later

    By Storybound   January 12, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    George Saunders: ‘Writing Books Make Me Nervous’

    By So Many Damn Books  January 12, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Wildwoods by Richard Nairn, Read by Ruairi Conaghan

    By Behind the Mic   January 12, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Math

    How to Read Ulysses
    By the Numbers

    By Eric Bulson  January 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  January 11, 2021
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