• Features

    Comedy

    On the Difficulty of Translating British Humor Into American Comedy 

    By Alessandro Tersigni  August 1, 2019
    Fascism

    Never Again What? On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking

    By Giacomo Lichtner  July 31, 2019
    Comedy

    When Novelists Become Method Actors

    By Leland Cheuk  July 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  July 31, 2019
    Reading Across America

    Eclipsed, a Wandering Reading Series, Finds a Home

    By Janelle Greco  July 31, 2019
    Working Women

    The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
    Being an Art Monster

    By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
    Poetry

    Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

    By Anna Hundert  July 31, 2019
    India

    Sujata Massey on Her New Novel, The Satapur Moonstone

    By Reading Women  July 31, 2019
    Literary Longweekend

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Hartford, Connecticut

    By Michele Herrmann  July 31, 2019
    Otherppl

    J. Ryan Stradal on Following the Enthusiasm

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 31, 2019
    Reading Lists

    So Many Damn Books on Their Summer Reading

    By So Many Damn Books  July 31, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

    By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
    Mothers

    The Books That Bear the Weight
    of the Living

    By Angelique Stevens  July 30, 2019
    Neuroscience

    A Brief and Awful History
    of the Lobotomy

    By Andrew Scull  July 30, 2019
    Religion

    What Happens When Satanists Try to Build a Public Monument?

    By Jay Wexler  July 30, 2019
    Interview with a Poet

    A.E. Stallings: ‘I’m Optimistic About Poetry, but That’s Maybe the Only Thing’

    By Peter Mishler  July 30, 2019
    WWII

    On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

    By Jean Edward Smith  July 30, 2019
    Writing Strategies

    On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

    By Liz Astrof  July 30, 2019
    Poem

    ‘Rotation,’
    A Poem by Dunya Mikhail

    By Dunya Mikhail  July 30, 2019
    Memoir

    Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

    By But That's Another Story  July 30, 2019
    Reading Lists

    8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

    By Craig Davidson  July 29, 2019
    Writing Women

    Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

    By Stephanie Jimenez  July 29, 2019
    About the Body

    On the Evolution of Fatness
    in Society

    By Christopher E. Forth  July 29, 2019
    Modern Classics

    The Writer and the Dictator:
    A Love/Hate Story

    By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
    Friendship

    From Pick-Up and Pynchon to a Lifetime in Publishing

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2019
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