• Literary Criticism

    Contemporary Classics

    Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

    By Dennis Tang  May 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  May 31, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unlikely Winner of the World’s Toughest Horse Race

    By Alyson Hagy  May 30, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

    By Lynn Steger Strong  May 30, 2019
    Literary History

    On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

    By Philip Eil  May 29, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

    By Tobias Carroll  May 29, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

    By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer  May 29, 2019
    Poets

    Jim Harrison’s Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

    By Dean Kuipers  May 28, 2019
    The West

    Hiking Cormac McCarthy’s Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

    By Raksha Vasudevan  May 28, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

    By Hamilton Cain  May 28, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Why We’ll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

    By Meg Donohue  May 28, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Groundbreaking Work

    By Billy Kahora  May 24, 2019
    Literary History

    On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

    By Jaime Fuller  May 24, 2019
    Notes on Twitter

    What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

    By Rebecca Brill  May 23, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

    By Veronica Esposito  May 22, 2019
    Protect Your Darlings

    Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

    By Brandon Taylor  May 22, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

    By Sara Collins  May 22, 2019
    Criticism

    13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
    How to Avoid Them

    By Jay A. Fernandez  May 21, 2019
    Failed Books

    Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin’s Unpublished
    Magnum Opus

    By Jeremy Klemin   May 20, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

    By Oscar Villalon  May 17, 2019
    Literary History

    Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

    By Brian Birnbaum  May 16, 2019
    Witches

    On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

    By Alexis Gunderson  May 16, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

    By Caroline Fraser  May 16, 2019
    Domestic Violence

    Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

    By Lacy M. Johnson  May 15, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    The 36 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Mrs. Dalloway

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2019
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