The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

Zan Romanoff on Adrienne Miller's In the Land of Men

By Zan Romanoff | February 10, 2020

Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won't End

Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won't End

John Freeman with the Author of Unfinished Business

By John Freeman | February 10, 2020

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

Jenn Shapland on The Argonauts and Building a Life

By Jenn Shapland | February 10, 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:<br> Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

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The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
The Talented Mr. Ripley

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2020

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty<br> To Write?

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
To Write?

Disavowing the Rituals of the American Civil War

By Susan V. Donaldson | February 4, 2020

On <em>My Dark Vanessa</em> and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

Red Newsom Considers the Line Between Experience and Fiction

By Red Newsom | February 3, 2020

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

By Varlam Shalamov | February 3, 2020

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Melissa Mesku Remembers the Author of Problems

By Melissa Mesku | February 3, 2020

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 January

By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

Mark Gustafson on the Poet's Devotion to a Community

By Mark Gustafson | January 31, 2020

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