• Features

    Poets

    After Carrie Kinsey’s Letter to Theodore Roosevelt

    By Shane McCrae  February 21, 2019
    Film

    Brit Bennett and Emily Halpern on Screenwriting’s Tips for Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 21, 2019
    Awards

    31 Books in 30 Days: Kate Tuttle on Nora Krug

    By Literary Hub  February 21, 2019
    Space!

    Charlie Jane Anders on World-Building and the Perils of Allegory

    By So Many Damn Books  February 21, 2019
    News

    Announcing the Third Annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

    By Emily Temple  February 21, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: February 20, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  February 20, 2019
    Q and A Conversations

    Valeria Luiselli on Freedom, First Love, and Mayan Ruins

    By Valeria Luiselli  February 20, 2019
    Excerpts

    Tigers Don’t Eat Humans, So Why Did This One Kill Over 400 People?

    By Dane Huckelbridge  February 20, 2019
    Close Reading

    Eula Biss: “A book I can’t defend, a book I can’t renounce.”

    By Eula Biss  February 20, 2019
    Excerpts

    Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

    By Daniel Immerwahr  February 20, 2019
    Feature

    The Best Fiction of Anxiety

    By Evelyn Hampton  February 20, 2019
    Deep Dive

    BlacKkKlansman: Antiracist Callout Disguised as a Feel-Good Cop Movie

    By Ben Rybeck  February 20, 2019
    Kid Lit

    Literary Disco: Children of the Disco

    By Literary Disco  February 20, 2019
    Awards

    31 Books in 30 Days: John McWhorter on Chris Bonanos

    By Literary Hub  February 20, 2019
    Cults

    Peter Stenson on Cults, Addiction, and Acceptance

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 20, 2019
    Awards

    Announcing the Finalists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

    By Literary Hub  February 20, 2019
    What's Love Got to Do with it

    Diving Deeper Into Love: Romance Novels, Part II

    By Reading Women  February 20, 2019
    Debut Novels

    Madhuri Vijay on Learning Patience and the Necessity of Editing

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 20, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: February 19, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  February 19, 2019
    Essay

    Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

    By Margaret Verble  February 19, 2019
    Deep Dive

    A Star Is Born: Meta-Critique or Repetition of a Tired Cycle?

    By Ben Rybeck  February 19, 2019
    Feature

    Important: 50 Literary Cameos in 90s Movies

    By Emily Temple  February 19, 2019
    Essay

    Going Deep into the Canadian Subarctic for Research

    By Jordanna Brodsky  February 19, 2019
    Close Reading

    On the Iconic First Line of One Hundred Years of Solitude

    By Claire Adam  February 19, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Janelle Monáe, Cold War, and a Palestinian Cookbook

    By Literary Hub  February 19, 2019
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