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How an Egyptian Prison Poem Came to Structure My Memoir

How an Egyptian Prison Poem Came to Structure My Memoir

Abdelrahman ElGendy on the Way Language Can Build a Relationship Between Author and Reader

By Abdelrahman ElGendy | September 16, 2026

Who Are MFA Workshops *Really* For?

Who Are MFA Workshops Really For?

Devon Halliday Considers the MFA and Its Discontents

By Devon Halliday | September 16, 2026

Anna Holmes on Why “No” Is the Most Powerful Word a Woman Can Say Today

Anna Holmes on Why “No” Is the Most Powerful Word a Woman Can Say Today

“For women ‘no’ can be a declaration of war, a call to arms, a rejection of the very traits that society deems most valuable.”

By Anna Holmes | September 16, 2026

In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required Reading

In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required Reading

“White supremacy welcomed his rage, and that made it irresistible.”

By Joseph Margulies | September 16, 2026

What Fascination With UFOs Reveals About Conspiratorial Thinking in America

What Fascination With UFOs Reveals About Conspiratorial Thinking in America

Adam Kirsch Explores the Intersection of Belief in Aliens and Lack of Trust in Institutions and Experts

By Adam Kirsch | September 16, 2026

Embodied, Unbodied, and the Body Destroyed: Five Books About the Body

Embodied, Unbodied, and the Body Destroyed: Five Books About the Body

Lydia Mathis Recommends Justin Torres, Jesmyn Ward, Sarah Gailey, and More

By Lydia Mathis | September 16, 2026

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Emily St. John Mandel on Writing a Novel of Dystopian Counterlives

By Jane Ciabattari | September 15, 2026

How Madeleine Thien Organizes Her Bookshelves, Among Other Things

By Madeleine Thien | September 15, 2026

On Falling Out of Love With Moscow

By Svetlana Satchkova | September 15, 2026

On the Orientalism and Imperial Gaze of Western Horror Films

On the Orientalism and Imperial Gaze of Western Horror Films

Youssef Rakha Watches Lee Cronin’s The Mummy in Cairo

By Youssef Rakha | September 15, 2026

Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States

Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States

Sun Yung Shin on Family, Identity, and the Opacities of Reflection

By Sun Yung Shin | September 15, 2026

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

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

Featuring Jim Shepard, Paisley Rekdal, Emily Ogden and More

By Teddy Wayne | September 15, 2026

The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

Gabe Bullard on Avoiding AI, Enshittification, and How Convenience Culture Makes a Lot of Things Worse

By Gabe Bullard | September 15, 2026

Behind One the Greatest Post-Punk Songs Ever Recorded

Behind One the Greatest Post-Punk Songs Ever Recorded

Kevin Dettmar on Joy Division, Ian Curtis, and the Tragic Background of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

By Kevin Dettmar | September 14, 2026

This Week in Literary History: John Keats Writes “To Autumn”

This Week in Literary History: John Keats Writes “To Autumn”

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

By Literary Hub | September 14, 2026

A Question of Innocence: On Writing About Real and Imagined Lives In and Outside of Prison

A Question of Innocence: On Writing About Real and Imagined Lives In and Outside of Prison

John J. Lennon Talks to Harriet Clark, Author of The Hill

By John J. Lennon | September 14, 2026

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