• Literary Criticism

    Speculative fiction

    On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

    By Stephanie Toliver  August 8, 2019
    Literary History

    The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Never Wrote

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
    Expatriates

    We’ll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

    By Elliott Holt  August 7, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

    By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
    Reading Lists

    What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

    By Kate McQuade  August 6, 2019
    Fragmentary Essays

    One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  August 6, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Toward a Theory of the New Weird

    By Elvia Wilk  August 5, 2019
    Criticism

    Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

    By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
    Literary History

    The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
    Moby Dick

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

    By Rachel Seiffert  August 1, 2019
    Literary History

    The Encyclopedic Genius of
    Melville’s Masterpiece

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 1, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  July 31, 2019
    Poets

    Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
    of Heart and Humor

    By Mike Schneider  July 29, 2019
    Reading Lists

    8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

    By Craig Davidson  July 29, 2019
    About the Body

    On the Evolution of Fatness
    in Society

    By Christopher E. Forth  July 29, 2019
    Modern Classics

    The Writer and the Dictator:
    A Love/Hate Story

    By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

    By Kim-Marie Walker  July 26, 2019
    Gatekeeping

    Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

    By Marcos Gonsalez  July 26, 2019
    Writer's block

    Got Writer’s Block?
    Read This Poem

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 25, 2019
    Social Novels

    On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

    By Pramoedya Ananta Toer  July 25, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Love, Death, and the Birds of Terry Tempest Williams

    By Randon Billings Noble  July 24, 2019
    Correspondence

    On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

    By Howard Norman  July 24, 2019
    Criticism

    Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed
    With The Group

    By Mikaella Clements  July 23, 2019
    On Poetry

    My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

    By Elizabeth Bales Frank  July 23, 2019
    Classics

    Was The Odyssey the First Greek Novel?

    By Michael Wood  July 22, 2019
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