Dear Internet: <em>The Little Mermaid</em> Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

On the Origins of Hans Christian Andersen's Fable
of Frustrated Affection

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 12, 2019

To Tell the Story of a Brother<br> I Will Never Know

To Tell the Story of a Brother
I Will Never Know

Marian Ryan in Berlin, Reading Han Kang

By Marian Ryan | July 12, 2019

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

“We’re all capable of throwing everything away in a moment, if the desire is strong enough.”

By Saskia Vogel | July 12, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird

"I would recommend reading this if you have no life and if you want to torture yourself."

By Emily Temple | July 11, 2019

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

Miciah Bay Gault on the High Anxiety of The Haunting of Hill House

By Miciah Bay Gault | July 11, 2019

On Hunger, Women's Bodies, and Margaret Atwood's First Novel

On Hunger, Women's Bodies, and Margaret Atwood's First Novel

Lara Williams Considers Writing by Margaret Atwood, Han Kang,
Roxane Gay, M.F.K. Fisher, and More

By Lara Williams | July 10, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

By Madeline ffitch | July 9, 2019

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

Barbara Bourland on Value and Excess in the Art Market

By Barbara Bourland | July 2, 2019

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

An Exhibit of His Life and Works is on Display through September

By Ted Widmer | July 2, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in June

By Emily Firetog | June 28, 2019

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

Domenico Starnone on the 20th Anniversary of Interpreter of Maladies

By Domenico Starnone | June 28, 2019

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Liza Wieland on Finding Darkness Where So Many Find Light

By Liza Wieland | June 28, 2019

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

On the Canny Cro-Magnon Woman in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children Series

By Amanda Rea | June 28, 2019

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

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