• Features

    Pop Music

    Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  December 14, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

    By The Maris Review  December 14, 2023
    Keen On

    David Keen on Why Failed Policies Keep Going

    By Keen On  December 14, 2023
    Photography

    Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes

    By Rebecca Solnit and Meghann Riepenhoff  December 13, 2023
    Santa Claus

    Making Sense of Santa, as a Science Reporter and a Parent

    By Nell Greenfieldboyce  December 13, 2023
    Cultural History

    What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

    By Tobias Becker  December 13, 2023
    Writing Process

    Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

    By Micheal O'Siadhail  December 13, 2023
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

    By Maura Lammers  December 13, 2023
    In Conversation

    Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

    By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Judith Tick on How Ella Fitzgerald Transformed America

    By Keen On  December 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

    By History of Literature  December 13, 2023
    On Identity

    One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

    By Naomi J. Williams  December 12, 2023
    The Renaissance

    Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

    By Meredith K. Ray  December 12, 2023
    Politics

    Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  December 12, 2023
    Dystopias

    Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 12, 2023
    Music history

    Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

    By Simon Price  December 12, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 12, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Yael Goldstein-Love on the Impossibilities Captured in The Possibilities

    By I'm a Writer But   December 12, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Willem Dafoe on His Human Approach to Acting

    By Talk Easy  December 12, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Vikas Adam and AudioFile’s Best Young Adult Audiobooks of 2023

    By Behind the Mic   December 12, 2023
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
    Photography

    Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

    By Binh Danh  December 11, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

    By Helen Molesworth  December 11, 2023
    Climate Change

    Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

    By Natalie Hart  December 11, 2023
    Poets in Conversation

    Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

    By Literary Hub  December 11, 2023
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