• Features

    Brazil

    How to Break in to Publishing If You’re a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

    By Padma Viswanathan and Graciliano Ramos  December 20, 2019
    Emergence Magazine

    Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

    By Lisa Lee Herrick  December 20, 2019
    Music

    The Romantic, Uncompromising, Audacious Life of Lhasa de Sela

    By Fred Goodman  December 20, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Chef Allen Susser on What It Means to Create Sustainable Cuisine

    By The Literary Life  December 20, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Letter from a Bookseller Upon the Death of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison

    By Sheryl Cotleur  December 20, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 19, 2019
    Comics

    Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

    By Lynda Barry  December 19, 2019
    Music

    When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

    By Jonathan Rosenberg  December 19, 2019
    Friendship

    The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

    By Lane Moore  December 19, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Susan Orlean: ‘We Expect Librarians to Be Everything to Everybody’

    By The Maris Review  December 19, 2019
    History

    On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

    By Camilla Townsend  December 19, 2019
    Family

    When Your Family Figures Out You’re a Writer… and Loves You For It

    By Melissa M. Woods  December 19, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities?

    By Just the Right Book   December 19, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Tim O’Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

    By Randy O'Brien  December 19, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman on What Drew Them to Writing

    By LIC Reading Series  December 19, 2019
    On Racism

    The Governor’s Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

    By Peggy Wallace Kennedy  December 19, 2019
    The Hub

    “Why can’t I buy a Joan Didion tote?” and more questions from the expanded Lit Hub universe answered.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 18, 2019
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Visiting Jeff VanderMeer’s Weird, Wondrous Worlds

    By Erin Berger  December 18, 2019
    The Writing Life

    When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

    By Laleh Khadivi  December 18, 2019
    Sex

    One Man’s Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

    By Susan G. Davis  December 18, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

    By James Tate Hill  December 18, 2019
    Criticism

    The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever’s Darkest Work

    By Rick Moody  December 18, 2019
    Character Development

    How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

    By Jim Davies  December 18, 2019
    Class

    Unearthing the Stories of Australia’s Working Class

    By Enza Gandolfo  December 18, 2019
    War

    Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

    By Mike Giglio  December 18, 2019
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