• Features

    A Poem

    “When I Imagine All the Possibilities of the Swarm”

    By Muriel Leung  May 12, 2021
    Otherppl

    Elissa Washuta on Tweeting Her Way to Her Voice

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 12, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On the Missing Racial History in Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee

    By NewberyTart   May 12, 2021
    Poetry

    “Clocks That Strike Only at Sunset”

    By Geoffrey Nutter  May 12, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami, Read by Kotaro Watanabe

    By Behind the Mic   May 12, 2021
    Literary Math

    What Are the Most Discussed Books on the Internet?

    By Emily Temple  May 11, 2021
    Conservatism

    Generation Grievance: How the Political Correctness Myth Was Born

    By Nesrine Malik  May 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jennifer Weiner’s Dream Reader is Any Woman

    By Literary Hub  May 11, 2021
    Nordic Literature

    The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

    By Egill Bjarnason  May 11, 2021
    Forests

    “Are We Going to Take It All?” On the Moral Reckoning of Clear-Cutting a Forest

    By Suzanne Simard  May 11, 2021
    Craft

    Joan Silber on Writing Double Maneuvers and Deception

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 11, 2021
    Lit Century

    Should Norman Mailer Have Any Legacy Beyond Being the Guy Who Stabbed His Wife?

    By Lit Century   May 11, 2021
    Film Actors

    How Pretty in Pink Star Andrew McCarthy Became an (Unlikely) Teen Heartthrob

    By Andrew McCarthy  May 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  May 11, 2021
    Cities

    How Racism and Neglect Fueled the Rise of Gang Life in Denver

    By Julian Rubinstein  May 11, 2021
    Keen On

    Kenneth Cukier and Francis de Vericourt on the GOP’s
    Framing Problem

    By Keen On  May 11, 2021
    Literary Disco

    In Praise of Atul Gawande’s Anti-Self Help Book,
    Being Mortal

    By Literary Disco  May 11, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Stop Saving the Planet! by Jenny Price, Read by Hillary Huber

    By Behind the Mic   May 11, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Substance If Not Style: On the Radical Similarities of Alice Munro and Pedro Almodóvar

    By Veronica Esposito  May 10, 2021
    Graphic Memoir

    Alison Bechdel on Transcendentalism, Bliss, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength

    By Corinne Segal  May 10, 2021
    Organized Crime

    Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

    By John Domini  May 10, 2021
    Basketball

    How American Sports’ COVID Patient Zero Nearly Became a National Pariah

    By Ben Golliver  May 10, 2021
    Interview with a Poet

    Kate Durbin on Finding Beauty in the Possessions That Possess Us

    By Chelsea Hodson  May 10, 2021
    Big Table

    Eddie Glaude, Jr. on What James Baldwin’s America Teaches
    Us Now

    By Big Table  May 10, 2021
    Plot

    What Do We Mean When We Say a Novel is Without Plot?

    By Rónán Hession  May 10, 2021
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