• Features

    Gifts

    On the Difficulty of Giving Books as Gifts

    By Lewis Buzbee  December 11, 2023
    First Draft

    Michael Cunningham on Treating Stories Like Living Things

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

    By Memoir Nation   December 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Hannah Gold on Letting Go of Philip Roth

    By Keen On  December 11, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Guy Lockard and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Children & Family Listening Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 11, 2023
    What to Watch

    Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

    By Rumaan Alam  December 8, 2023
    Performance Art

    Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

    By Brooke Wentz  December 8, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

    By Kliph Nesteroff  December 8, 2023
    Culinary History

    Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

    By Gareth Russell  December 8, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

    By Richard Hugo  December 8, 2023
    Family Stories

    Finding Hope, Meaning, and Purpose in a Jenny Zhang Story

    By Channler Twyman  December 8, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Thérèse Plummer and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Romance Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Ben Lerner on the Dangers of Digital Technology

    By Keen On  December 8, 2023
    Best of 2023

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    Censorship

    Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction

    By Moira Marquis  December 7, 2023
    Adventurers

    After Australia: Robyn Davidson on Discovering Her Next Adventure

    By Robyn Davidson  December 7, 2023
    Motherhood

    Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

    By Jessica Moore  December 7, 2023
    On Technology

    Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

    By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
    Critical Race Theory

    Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today’s Villains

    By The Maris Review  December 7, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 7, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Daniel Henning and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 7, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  December 6, 2023
    Children's Lit

    My Year in Reading Children’s Books

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 6, 2023
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