• Literary Criticism

    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  August 9, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What True Sentences Did Hemingway Himself Write?

    By History of Literature  August 8, 2022
    Keen On

    The Pink Hotel: A California Novel Where You Can Check in But You Can’t Check Out

    By Keen On  August 8, 2022
    What to Watch

    Bodies Bodies Bodies is a Vicious Parody of Online Culture and a Tight Little Murder Mystery

    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 5, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Dwyer Murphy on How to Write About a City

    By Dwyer Murphy  August 5, 2022
    Queer Lit

    Edgar Gomez Unpacks Their Internalized Machismo in High-Risk Homosexual

    By Andrew Sciallo  August 5, 2022
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  August 5, 2022
    Psychogeography

    Wandering The Wirral: On the Literary Influence of Malcolm Lowry’s Childhood Landscape

    By Adam Scovell  August 5, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Monique Roffey: How to Write About Colonialism Without Talking About Colonialism

    By The Literary Life  August 5, 2022
    Storytelling

    The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

    By Adam Langer  August 4, 2022
    The Maris Review

    CJ Hauser on Wanting To Learn Everything From Katherine Hepburn

    By The Maris Review  August 4, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Dan Sheehan  August 4, 2022
    Great Adaptations

    How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

    By Robert Stinner  August 4, 2022
    Interview with a Poet

    Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

    By Peter Mishler  August 4, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 4, 2022
    Book Collectives

    How One Group of Global South Writers is Decolonizing Literature

    By Pritika Pradhan  August 3, 2022
    Folklore

    From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

    By Emma Seckel  August 3, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    10 New SF and Fantasy Books
    to Augment Your August

    By Book Marks  August 3, 2022
    new books tuesday

    21 new books to take home and love today.

    By Katie Yee  August 2, 2022
    Bugs

    “I have drunk, and seen the spider.” On Swallowing Bugs in Fiction

    By Daisy Hildyard  August 2, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Sandra Newman on Writing Novels As a Way to Represent the World

    By I'm a Writer But   August 2, 2022
    End Times

    Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

    By Clare Pollard  August 2, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Marianne Wiggins on Completing a Novel After Suffering a Stroke and Finding Inspiration In California’s Dry Terrain

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 2, 2022
    Reading Lists

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of July

    By Book Marks  August 2, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    In Praise of Survival Literature

    By So Many Damn Books  August 2, 2022
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