• Literary Criticism

    True Crime

    The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

    By Philip Metres  November 14, 2019
    Teachers

    High School Crush: On Literary Longing and Misdirected Lust

    By Janet Manley  November 13, 2019
    Language

    Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

    By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
    Russian Literature

    The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

    By Sara Wheeler  November 12, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

    By Thomas Travisano  November 12, 2019
    Literature and Politics

    Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

    By Ava Homa  November 12, 2019
    Masculinity

    Imran Siddiquee on the Problem with “New Masculinity”

    By Imran Siddiquee  November 11, 2019
    Influences

    Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

    By Azar Nafisi  November 11, 2019
    Inspiration

    On the Line Between Plagiarism and Art

    By Grant Maierhofer  November 11, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    How Lou Sullivan’s Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

    By Callum Angus  November 8, 2019
    Nazis

    Hans Fallada, the Anti-Nazi Writer Who Reluctantly Served the Reich

    By Geoff Wilkes  November 8, 2019
    Reading Lists

    All of Our Good—and All of Our Evil—Lies in Wait in the Archives

    By Sara Sligar  November 7, 2019
    Literary History

    Mariana Enriquez on the Radical, Subversive Power of Silvina Ocampo

    By Mariana Enriquez  November 6, 2019
    Architecture

    On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

    By Paul Hendrickson  November 6, 2019
    Interview

    Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary ‘Retrenchment’

    By Brian Gresko  November 6, 2019
    Short Stories

    Mimi Lok on Writing in (and For) the Margins

    By Dave Eggers  November 6, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Displacement Generation: On Homesickness and the Millennial Memoir

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  November 4, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Fascinating Sontag: Gerald Howard Considers the Life of an Intellectual Superstar

    By Gerald Howard  November 4, 2019
    Books

    How to Haul a Book Collection Across an Ocean

    By Connor Harrison  November 4, 2019
    Stephen Crane

    A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

    By Tobias Carroll  November 1, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
    Horror

    The Terror Behind the Mask

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2019
    Feminism

    The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club

    By Ruth Madievsky  October 31, 2019
    Madness

    American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

    By Troy Rondinone  October 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  October 31, 2019
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