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Ben Fountain on Rasputin and Trump’s Coming Third Term

Ben Fountain on Rasputin and Trump’s Coming Third Term

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 11, 2026

The Man Who Killed the Last Eastern Elk in America—And Was Proud of It

The Man Who Killed the Last Eastern Elk in America—And Was Proud of It

Andrew Moore on “The Seneca Bear Hunter” Jim Jacobs and the End of the Wild, Rugged East Coast

By Andrew Moore | June 10, 2026

Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley...)

Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley...)

Helen Bain on Taking a Plathian Pilgrimage

By Helen Bain | June 10, 2026

Brodie Crellin Recommends Six Books With Actually Realistic Sex

Brodie Crellin Recommends Six Books With Actually Realistic Sex

With Work by Robert Gluck, Nicholson Baker, Sheila Heti and More

By Brodie Crellin | June 10, 2026

To Know a Person Entirely: Re-Discovering My Grandfather Through Fiction

To Know a Person Entirely: Re-Discovering My Grandfather Through Fiction

Sofia Montrone: “Where else does writing come from, if not the desire to peer through the keyhole of someone else’s mind?”

By Sofia Montrone | June 10, 2026

“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other

“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other

Chera Hammons on Writing in the Shadow of Violence, Trauma and Revisionist Natural History

By Chera Hammons | June 10, 2026

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Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings?

By Sarah Braunstein | June 10, 2026

How We Paint Dogs Says More About Us Than It Does Them

By Thomas W. Laqueur | June 10, 2026

Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists

By Jane Ciabattari | June 9, 2026

An “Intellectual Monster...” Why Muriel Spark Never Remarried

An “Intellectual Monster...” Why Muriel Spark Never Remarried

James Bailey on the Writer’s Eternal Pursuit of the Literary Life

By James Bailey | June 9, 2026

What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title

What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title

Brook Wilensky-Lanford on the Long, Difficult (Yet Fun) Process of Titling Her New Book, A God-Shaped Nation

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | June 9, 2026

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

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

Featuring Courtney Maum, Ben Fountain, Deb Olin Unferth and More

By Teddy Wayne | June 9, 2026

Lauren Acampora Recommends 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections

Lauren Acampora Recommends 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections

With Work by Geraldine Brooks, Takashi Hiraide, Lydia Millet, and More

By Lauren Acampora | June 9, 2026

“Effaced...” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine

“Effaced...” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine

Huda Fakhreddine: “I have been reading Jawdat, my father, and his poetry all my life.”

By Jawdat Fakhreddine and Huda Fakhreddine | June 9, 2026

Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: On the Environmental Vision of Rachel Carson

Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: On the Environmental Vision of Rachel Carson

“I hope I have made clear tonight that a new spirit is abroad in this land.”

By Carla Baricz and James Kessenides | June 8, 2026

A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield

A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield

“Even in Mansfield stories where children are not centered or present, this is their world. Her adults never quite grow up, only older.”

By Sloane Crosley | June 8, 2026

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