• Literary Criticism

    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
    Shakespeare

    Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s Othello

    By Aatif Rashid  October 30, 2019
    Gender and Politics

    Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

    By Eric Newman  October 29, 2019
    Capitalism

    How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte’s Web

    By Erin Wisti  October 28, 2019
    Philosophy

    What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

    By Charlie Tyson  October 28, 2019
    Magical Beings

    How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
    Being Human

    By Cristina Bacchilega  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Craft

    On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

    By Lincoln Michel  October 24, 2019
    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

    By Carl Phillips  October 23, 2019
    Comics

    On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

    By David L. Ulin  October 22, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children’s Books

    By Cara Hoffman  October 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Remembering Kate Braverman’s Los Angeles

    By Liska Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Diarists

    Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

    By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
    Essayists

    Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

    By Maddie Crum  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

    By Martha Cooley  October 21, 2019
    Correspondence

    Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

    By Dheepa Maturi  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

    By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    On J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

    By John Freeman  October 18, 2019
    Literary History

    Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

    By D.J. Taylor  October 18, 2019
    Native American Lit

    How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

    By Janice Gould  October 18, 2019
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