• Features

    Criticism

    Presidential Politics As Reality TV and Realist Fiction

    By Emma Lieber  March 21, 2017
    Profile

    Elif Batuman on Fictionalizing Her Life, and Learning to Fact Check

    By Dylan Foley  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    Unlearnable Lessons on My Father’s Deathbed

    By Marina Benjamin  March 21, 2017
    What to Read

    10 Transgressive Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups

    By Emily Temple  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a Husband’s Loving Biography Ruined His Wife’s Reputation

    By Richard Holmes  March 21, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Literary Voices on the Legendary Brilliance of Robert Silvers

    By Emily Temple  March 21, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Murder, Manifestos & Math Students

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 21, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: March 20, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  March 20, 2017
    Advice

    The Writing Wisdom of Derek Walcott

    By Emily Temple  March 20, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Derek Walcott: Poet of Twilight, Poet of the Caribbean

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    Take Heart: Shakespeare’s Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

    By J.P. Romney and Rebecca Romney  March 20, 2017
    Conversations

    Pankaj Mishra: We Committed Intellectual Suicide After 9/11

    By Rafia Zakaria  March 20, 2017
    Design

    Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

    By Peter Bagge  March 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Just How Partisan is the Supreme Court?

    By Melvin I. Urofsky  March 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

    By Dwyer Murphy  March 20, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Weekly: March 13 – 17, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  March 18, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: March 17, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  March 17, 2017
    What to Read

    15 Great Irish Writers You’ve Probably Never Read (But Should)

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2017
    Conversations

    Mohsin Hamid: “Migration is the Starting Point for Everybody”

    By Christopher Lydon  March 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing on an Island at the End of the World

    By Nell Stevens  March 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Clarice Lispector’s Children’s Story Taught Me to Read Her Like An Adult

    By Andréa Stella  March 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Toni Morrison is More Hemingway Than Hemingway Himself

    By Ben Blatt  March 17, 2017
    News

    Legendary Poet Derek Walcott Has Died

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What Kind of Empire Will China Be?

    By Howard W. French  March 17, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  March 16, 2017
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