• Features

    Poems

    ‘For My Daughter,’
    A Poem by Mark Yakich

    By Mark Yakich  July 3, 2019
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Bret Easton Ellis: “I didn’t expect White to be controversial among millennials.”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 3, 2019
    What to Read

    10 Books You Should Read This July

    By Literary Hub  July 2, 2019
    Nature Writing

    The Life-Changing Magic of Mushroom Hunting in Central Park

    By Long Litt Woon  July 2, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Art World Doesn’t Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

    By Barbara Bourland  July 2, 2019
    Ghosts!

    On the Power of Ghostly Narrators

    By Mamta Chaudhry  July 2, 2019
    Whitman

    Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

    By Ted Widmer  July 2, 2019
    Poems

    ‘The Wolves’
    A Poem by Paisley Rekdal

    By Paisley Rekdal  July 2, 2019
    Fishing

    My White Whale Was a 50-Pound Fish in Martha’s Vineyard

    By Janet Messineo  July 2, 2019
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  July 1, 2019
    Obsessions

    On Peter Matthiessen’s Lifelong Fascination with Bigfoot

    By Jeff Wheelwright  July 1, 2019
    Displacement

    Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2019
    Politics

    In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

    By Peter Hessler  July 1, 2019
    Magic?

    What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians

    By Gabriel Urza  July 1, 2019
    Poems

    ‘Completion,’
    A Prose Poem by Ron Padgett

    By Ron Padgett  July 1, 2019
    Art and Writing

    Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

    By Luke Jerod Kummer  July 1, 2019
    Vast Generalizations

    What Your Favorite Beach Read Says About You

    By Emily Temple  June 28, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  June 28, 2019
    Prison memoir

    The Torture of Being Trapped in an Australian Refugee Detention Center

    By Behrouz Boochani  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

    By Domenico Starnone  June 28, 2019
    Poets

    Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

    By Liza Wieland  June 28, 2019
    Facebook

    Why David Kirkpatrick Turned on Facebook

    By Keen On  June 28, 2019
    War

    Coming to the Realization That I Might Have PTSD

    By Ryan Leigh Dostie  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

    By Amanda Rea  June 28, 2019
    The Internet

    When Loneliness Leads to Sex Robots: A Study in Teledildonics

    By Dianne Araral  June 28, 2019
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