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What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

"Her only real crime was that she was a better poet than me."

By Jen Corrigan | June 18, 2019

How the Adaptation of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> Failed Scout Finch

How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

Rebecca Renner: Gregory Peck Made the Film All About Atticus

By Rebecca Renner | June 18, 2019

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

Joy Lanzendorfer on Balancing Social Anxiety and the Need for Writerly Networking

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 18, 2019

"Franz Kafka" the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

The Kafkaesque Feeling of Seeing Kafka as a Tourist Attraction

By Renee Lynn Reizman | June 18, 2019

How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

By Nnamdi Ehirim | June 18, 2019

20 "Perfect Summer Books" for This and Every Year

If Every Kind of Book is Perfect for Summer, Are Any of Them?

By Emily Temple | June 17, 2019

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Learning of My Father's Suicide From My Grandmother's Poetry

By John James | June 14, 2019

How to Eulogize an Animal

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 12, 2019

A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

By Jaime Fuller | June 11, 2019

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Domenica Ruta, and More Take the LitHub Questionnaire

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Domenica Ruta, and More Take the LitHub Questionnaire

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne | June 11, 2019

On Alabama's Dark History of Brutalizing Black Women's Bodies

On Alabama's Dark History of Brutalizing Black Women's Bodies

Camille T. Dungy Looks at Three Recent Books on the State's

By Camille T. Dungy | June 11, 2019

On Life and Death and the Oldest Living Thing in Pennsylvania

On Life and Death and the Oldest Living Thing in Pennsylvania

Barbara Hurd on the Lessons of Robert Macfarlane's Underland

By Barbara Hurd | June 10, 2019

The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won't Die

The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won't Die

Lauren Markham on Two Very Different Stories of Manifest Destiny

By Lauren Markham | June 10, 2019

Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

Harmony Holiday on Jazz, Poetry, and a Rare Record of Mythic Black Friendship

By Harmony Holiday | June 10, 2019

Why We Write About This Thing Called the Future

Why We Write About This Thing Called the Future

Naomi Alderman on The Heads of Cerberus and the Invention of Progress

By Naomi Alderman | June 7, 2019

With Apologies to Orwell, We've Gone Way Past <em>1984</em>

With Apologies to Orwell, We've Gone Way Past 1984

From Putin to Trump, We Are Being Told to "reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."

By Dorian Lynskey | June 7, 2019

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