• Literary Criticism

    Short story writers

    Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

    By Lauren Groff  September 30, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    When Will Ben Lerner Admit He’s a Novelist?

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
    Australian Literature

    On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist

    By Madeleine Watts  September 30, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father’s Journey Home

    By Maya Phillips  September 30, 2019
    Literary History

    The Writer You’ve Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

    By Mark Haber  September 27, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  September 27, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    News and Culture

    Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

    By Mark Gozonsky  September 26, 2019
    Teaching

    The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

    By Noah Cho  September 26, 2019
    Young Adult

    How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

    By Dana Schwartz  September 25, 2019
    Animals

    Since When Did Animals Become Synonymous With
    Our Grief?

    By Rebecca Renner  September 25, 2019
    Folktales

    Neil Gaiman on the Good Kind of Trolls

    By Neil Gaiman  September 20, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    For Diasporic Writers, Nostalgia is a Powerful Tool For Engaging Home

    By Rosa Boshier  September 20, 2019
    Criticism

    Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

    By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
    Japan

    Pico Iyer on the Infinite
    Silences of Japan

    By Pico Iyer  September 18, 2019
    Literary History

    My First Library Was a Library of Porn

    By Brian D. Bouldrey  September 17, 2019
    Haunted Houses

    On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women

    By Rachel Eve Moulton  September 17, 2019
    Literary History

    The US Tour That Made Gertrude Stein a Household Name

    By Roy Morris, Jr.  September 16, 2019
    Addiction

    On Attempting to Deal With Addiction Through Books

    By Chris Fleming  September 13, 2019
    Forgotten Classics

    11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now

    By Bob Batchelor  September 13, 2019
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

    By Jaime Fuller  September 12, 2019
    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Profiles

    The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott’s Invented World

    By Danielle Evans  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    Poets

    On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

    By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
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