• Features

    Reading Lists

    Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

    By Sara Collins  May 22, 2019
    Reasons a Writer Should Move

    5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Baltimore

    By Danielle Evans  May 22, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    Kate Mulgrew on the Work of Waiting, in Acting and in Life

    By Kate Mulgrew  May 22, 2019
    History of Science

    Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

    By Matthew Stanley  May 22, 2019
    Radicalism

    On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

    By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall  May 22, 2019
    Motherhood

    Angie Kim on the Myth of the Good Mother

    By Reading Women  May 22, 2019
    Life Coaching

    Saskia Vogel on the BDSM Dungeons in
    Los Angeles Suburbs

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 22, 2019
    Writing Advice

    “Make Them Care About What You Think” and Other Writing Advice from Nora Ephron

    By Emily Temple  May 21, 2019
    Influences

    The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is… McDonald’s?

    By Ryan Chapman  May 21, 2019
    Criticism

    13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
    How to Avoid Them

    By Jay A. Fernandez  May 21, 2019
    Science Rules!

    How Do We Reverse the Tide of an Anti-Science America?

    By Lee McIntyre  May 21, 2019
    Adaptations

    Anna Deavere Smith: Some Notes on Notes from the Field

    By Anna Deavere Smith  May 21, 2019
    On Race

    Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

    By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  May 21, 2019
    What Should A Narrative Be?

    On Obliterating How Narrative Art Should Function

    By Will Vanderhyden  May 21, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    The Boston Bookstore with a Focus on Writers of Color

    By Interview with a Bookstore  May 21, 2019
    Failed Books

    Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin’s Unpublished
    Magnum Opus

    By Jeremy Klemin   May 20, 2019
    Poems

    ‘Camp Fire,’ A Poem by sam sax

    By Sam Sax  May 20, 2019
    Dog Stories

    Can You Have a Meaningful Long-Distance Relationship with a Dog?

    By Xuan Juliana Wang  May 20, 2019
    Politics

    In India, One Publisher’s High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

    By Liesl Schwabe  May 20, 2019
    Singer Songwriters

    Ani DiFranco on Reproductive Freedom and Taking on the Patriarchy

    By Ani DiFranco  May 20, 2019
    Friendship

    Walking Through the Woods of Midtown with Jessica Francis Kane

    By Brian Gresko  May 20, 2019
    Power

    Lisa Lucas Talks Robert Caro and the Injustices of NYC Urban Planning

    By But That's Another Story  May 20, 2019
    Literary Oddities

    Flannery O’Connor’s Two Deepest Loves Were Mayonnaise and Her Mother

    By Caroline McCoy  May 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

    By Oscar Villalon  May 17, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    Why Democracy Needs
    Team Human

    By Keen On  May 17, 2019
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