• Features

    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 11, 2020
    Women's Bodies

    Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

    By Clare Beams  February 11, 2020
    Editors

    What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

    By Adrienne Miller  February 11, 2020
    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    What to Read

    Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise

    By Leila Aboulela  February 11, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Failsafe Reading Recommendations for Your Non-Reader Friend in Need

    By Nick Greene and Megan Reid  February 11, 2020
    Storybound

    Caitlin Doughty Performs a Passage From Her Latest Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    By Storybound   February 11, 2020
    The Cold War

    The Last Days at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Cold
    War Begins

    By Diana Preston  February 11, 2020
    Literary Disco

    Can We Ever Really Listen to One Another?

    By Literary Disco  February 11, 2020
    LIC Reading Series

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Jared Harél, Morgan Jerkins, and Rachel Lyon

    By LIC Reading Series  February 11, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   February 11, 2020
    Film and TV

    Does Bong Joon-Ho’s Historic Oscar Win Signal Real Change for the Academy Awards?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 10, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    On Death

    There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

    By Denise Riley  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Poetry

    We Didn’t Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK’s Inauguration

    By John Burnside  February 10, 2020
    Anthropology

    On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

    By Gaia Vince  February 10, 2020
    Religion

    Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

    By Alena Dillon  February 10, 2020
    Emergence Magazine Podcast

    Richard Powers Talks Kinship, Community, and Consciousness

    By Emergence Magazine  February 10, 2020
    The Cold War

    Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

    By Diana Preston  February 10, 2020
    First Draft

    Jill Ciment on What’s Truly Interesting About Sex

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener, Read by Suehyla El-Attar

    By Behind the Mic   February 10, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    First Nations Writers

    Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

    By Richard Wagamese  February 7, 2020
    Journalism

    The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

    By Sophia Leonard  February 7, 2020
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