• Features

    Queer Literature

    Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

    By Phil Melanson  June 16, 2025
    Medieval History

    How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture

    By Bernd Roeck  June 16, 2025
    Patriarchy

    Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

    By Diana Arterian  June 16, 2025
    First Draft

    Ethan Rutherford on Making Something from Nothing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 16, 2025
    Write-minded

    Sara Kehaulani Goo on Writing as Kuleana

    By Memoir Nation   June 16, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: To Be or Not To Be? To Rec or Not to Rec?

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   June 13, 2025
    Father's Day

    Becoming a Parent Changes How You Write… But Must It Change What You Write?

    By Danny Lorberbaum  June 13, 2025
    In Memoriam

    “The Finch Interested Me…” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

    By Donovan Hohn  June 13, 2025
    Overlooked Women

    Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

    By Emily Hauser  June 13, 2025
    Masculinity

    How Donald Trump’s Truculent Retro Masculinity Duped Working Class Men

    By Joan C. Williams  June 13, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

    By Iryn Tushabe  June 13, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  June 13, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Lucas Schaefer on Troubleshooting a Problem Character

    By Lucas Schaefer  June 13, 2025
    Relationships

    Taking Up Space: Relationships as Sites of Social Transformation

    By Prentis Hemphill  June 13, 2025
    Food Writing

    Food as First Language: Mike Curato on the Validation of Learning to Cook Filipino Food

    By Mike Curato  June 13, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Vikas Adam on His Golden Voice

    By Behind the Mic   June 13, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 12, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 12, 2025
    The Ocean

    What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  June 12, 2025
    Humor

    “No One Makes ‘Yo Mama’ Jokes After the Funeral.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the Power of Unexpected Humor

    By Hanif Abdurraqib  June 12, 2025
    Queer History

    Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

    By Martin Padgett  June 12, 2025
    Corruption

    How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

    By Lisa Pratta  June 12, 2025
    Judaism

    The Synagogue in the Heart of the Delta: Exploring Jewish Culture in Rural Mississippi

    By Lauren Rhoades  June 12, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

    By Janelle Brown  June 12, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 12, 2025
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