• Literary Criticism

    The Maris Review

    Alejandro Zambra on Writing Two Books in One

    By The Maris Review  March 10, 2022
    Book Dreams

    How an Argument Over The Hobbit Inspired Marlon James’s Dark Star Trilogy

    By Book Dreams  March 10, 2022
    Otherppl

    John Keene on Punks, Elegies, and the Heroics of Survival

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 10, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 10, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

    By Sejal Shah  March 10, 2022
    On Writing

    Transformation and Precision: On Writing Dreams

    By Corinne Hoex  March 10, 2022
    Race

    What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

    By Kasim Ali  March 10, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 10, 2022
    Ukraine

    Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

    By Sofi Oksanen  March 9, 2022
    On Writing

    What Makes a Great Opening Line?

    By Allegra Hyde  March 9, 2022
    Politics

    The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously

    By Azar Nafisi  March 9, 2022
    On Writing

    How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

    By Ben Okri  March 9, 2022
    Recommended Reading

    How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

    By Tara Isabella Burton  March 9, 2022
    Gender

    Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

    By Mona Chollet  March 9, 2022
    On Translation

    How Rumi Became a Poet

    By Haleh Liza Gafori  March 9, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Kevin Barry on Flowers in the Attic, 2666, and The Talented Mr. Ripley

    By Book Marks  March 9, 2022
    The Hub

    It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

    By Katie Yee  March 8, 2022
    Ukraine

    How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

    By Kate Tsurkan  March 8, 2022
    Rural America

    What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

    By Lee Cole  March 8, 2022
    Character Development

    Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

    By Erin Kate Ryan  March 8, 2022
    Women Writers

    Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

    By Mary Ann Sieghart  March 8, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  March 8, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 8, 2022
    new books tuesday

    19 new books to get lost in this week.

    By Katie Yee  March 8, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    On Coming to Ursula K. Le Guin in My Own Time

    By Amal El-Mohtar  March 7, 2022
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