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Biography

Writers on Writers

Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

“It is striking how resonant Le Guin’s work remains even as the future she describes recedes into our past.”

 
By Kelly Link  January 31, 2023
Keen On

Philip Taubman on George P. Shultz’s Un-Trumpian Role in Ending the Cold War

By Keen On  January 30, 2023
Otherppl

“He Was Determined to Make Himself into a Character.” David S. Willis on the Gonzo Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 26, 2023
Biography

“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

By Robert D. Richardson  January 25, 2023
Literary Biography

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

By Emily J. Orlando  January 24, 2023
Modernism

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

By Kirsty Gunn  January 23, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The History of Literature

Auden and the Muse of History with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

By History of Literature  January 23, 2023
Keen On

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

By Keen On  January 23, 2023
What to Watch

Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

By Ethan Warren  January 20, 2023
News and Culture

How a Leading Voice of Eswatini Culture Was Erased From History

Joel Cabrita on Regina Gelana Twala and the Legacy of Racism and Sexism in Southern Africa

By Joel Cabrita  January 30, 2023
Literary History

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

By Richard Bradford  January 17, 2023
Most Anticipated

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
In Memoriam

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

By Adam Colman  January 11, 2023
In Memoriam

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”

By Aminatta Forna  January 10, 2023
Diaries

“What Excuse Do I Have for Having Written Nothing Yet Today? None.” Glimpses Into Kafka’s Workshop

By Ross Benjamin  January 10, 2023
Poets

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

By Matthew Hollis  January 9, 2023
Biography

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

By Craig Brown  January 8, 2023
Read This Watch That

What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

Readings on the Life, Works, and Preoccupations of an American Icon

By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
European History

From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
In Memoriam

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

By Aram Mrjoian  December 22, 2022
Children's Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

By Hervé Tullet  December 21, 2022
Poets

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Heather Cass White Unearths the Correspondence Between a Poet and His Faithful Reader

By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
The Hub

Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

By Jonny Diamond  December 19, 2022
Artists

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

By Paul Fisher  December 19, 2022
Fiction/Non/Fiction

In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

By Fiction Non Fiction  January 19, 2023
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