• Features

    Silicon Valley

    What Is It Like to Be a Black Woman in the Tech Industry?

    By Chad Sanders  February 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 9, 2021
    Persian Literature

    A Brief History of Metaphor in
    Persian Poetry

    By Dick Davis  February 9, 2021
    Storybound

    Shayla Lawson Performs Her Essay “Black Lives Matter, Yard Signs Matter”

    By Storybound   February 9, 2021
    Travel

    Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France

    By Kathleen Phelan  February 9, 2021
    Keen On

    How the Flint Water Crisis Encapsulates Our Growing Distrust of Government

    By Keen On  February 9, 2021
    Healthcare

    Boundaries and Care: On Touring French Pharmacies Before the Pandemic

    By Lucie Elven  February 9, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

    By So Many Damn Books  February 9, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The New Map by Daniel Yergin, Read by Robert Petkoff

    By Behind the Mic   February 9, 2021
    Interview

    David Duchovny: I Tackle Writer’s Block From Behind

    By Literary Hub  February 8, 2021
    Social Media

    When Talking About Poetry Online
    Goes Very Wrong

    By Wayne Miller  February 8, 2021
    Politics

    On Receiving an Anonymous SOS Letter From China About Religious Persecution

    By Amelia Pang  February 8, 2021
    Book Recommendations

    Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

    By Tyler Wetherall  February 8, 2021
    On Craft

    The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

    By Lisa Zeidner  February 8, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

    By History of Literature  February 8, 2021
    On Translation

    How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

    By Lara Vergnaud  February 8, 2021
    Poetry

    “New York”

    By Alex Dimitrov  February 8, 2021
    Food History

    On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

    By Urvi Kumbhat  February 8, 2021
    Keen On

    What Should Joe Biden Do About Policing?

    By Keen On  February 8, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 8th to Feb. 14th

    By Kiki Nicole  February 8, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Steven Donziger on the ‘Amazon Chernobyl’ Happening in Ecuador

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 8, 2021
    First Draft

    Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 8, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Fleeing the Cambodian Genocide for the False Promise of the American Dream

    By Emergence Magazine  February 8, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Journeys of Trees by Zach St. George, Read by Daniel Henning

    By Behind the Mic   February 8, 2021
    Women Writers

    On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

    By Rosalind Miles  February 5, 2021
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