• Literary Criticism

    Book Clubs

    Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

    By Marjan Kamali  March 13, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

    By Liesl Schillinger  March 13, 2020
    Literary History

    Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

    By D.J. Taylor  March 13, 2020
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

    By Emily Temple  March 12, 2020
    Solitude

    Cultivating Solitude,
    The Henry James’ Way

    By Fenton Johnson  March 10, 2020
    Language

    Pintle, Gudgeon, Chock: On the Rich, Wonderful (and Odd) Vocabulary of Sailing

    By Luis Jaramillo  March 10, 2020
    Criticism

    On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

    By Michelle de Krester  March 9, 2020
    Palestine

    How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives?

    By George Abraham  March 6, 2020
    Criticism

    How Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Continues to Show Up in Literary Fiction

    By David Lerner Schwartz  March 5, 2020
    Criticism

    The Hidden Power of the Passive Protagonist

    By Jessi Jezewska Stevens  March 5, 2020
    Writing

    Writing and Confronting Terror in the Form of a Color

    By Theodore Wheeler  March 5, 2020
    Bad Book Reviews

    The 75 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of On the Road

    By Emily Temple  March 4, 2020
    Life Under Late Capitalism

    Hilary Leichter on the Derangements of Late Capitalism

    By Kristin Iversen  March 3, 2020
    Literary History

    What Do We Do with The Age of Innocence in 2020?

    By Sarah Blackwood  March 3, 2020
    Religion

    On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism

    By Nick Ripatrazone  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    The Woman in Black has come to haunt New York City.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 28, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2020
    Film

    How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

    By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
    Queer Identity

    The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

    By Zee Francis  February 28, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    Literary History

    A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
    Marginalia

    A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of The Price of Salt

    By Antonia Angress  February 25, 2020
    Folklore

    Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

    By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    Self-Help?

    Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

    By Chelsea Leu  February 21, 2020
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