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How Being a Mediocre Scientist Helped Me Become a Better Novelist

How Being a Mediocre Scientist Helped Me Become a Better Novelist

Vincent Yu on the Creative Lessons He Learned From His Stint In Evolutionary Biology

By Vincent Yu | May 5, 2026

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

Elizabeth Preston on How Humans Are Born to Care for Others

By Elizabeth Preston | May 5, 2026

Grave Years and the Undead Woman: On the Chilling Erasure of Mothers’ Needs

Grave Years and the Undead Woman: On the Chilling Erasure of Mothers’ Needs

Tiffany Tsao Explores the Effects of the Stigmatization of Less-Than-Perfect Motherhood

By Tiffany Tsao | May 5, 2026

Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action

Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action

“People who look and pray like me love our children exactly the same way you love yours."

By Kaveh Akbar | May 4, 2026

What Tradwife “Influencers” of Centuries Past Share With Their Social Media Contemporaries

What Tradwife “Influencers” of Centuries Past Share With Their Social Media Contemporaries

Maia Chance on the Age-Old Phenomenon of Toxic Nostalgia For a Nonexistent Past

By Maia Chance | May 4, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont

This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont

“I plume myself on this achievement more than I could possibly do on any kind of glory, political, poetical, or rhetorical.”

By Literary Hub | May 4, 2026

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Saying Yes to the Book is Just Like Saying Yes to the Dress

By Jocelyn Jane Cox | May 4, 2026

To Be Honest in Poetry Right Now is to Embrace the Abstract, Negative, and Weak

By Xuela Zhang | May 4, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2026

Who wants a $32,000 copy of <em> Runaway Bunny </em>?

Who wants a $32,000 copy of Runaway Bunny ?

Field notes from a visit to the Antiquarian Book Fair.

By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2026

Satire Isn’t Dead, We Just Misunderstand It

Satire Isn’t Dead, We Just Misunderstand It

Erin Van Der Meer on What We Get Wrong About Satire

By Erin Van Der Meer | May 1, 2026

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

From Her Speech at the 2026 One Story Debutante Ball

By Lauren Groff | May 1, 2026

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts <br>to Make a Home

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts
to Make a Home

Stefan Al Considers the Architectural Prowess of Our Prehistoric Ancestors

By Stefan Al | May 1, 2026

One great poem to read today: Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips”

One great poem to read today: Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips”

By Emily Temple | April 30, 2026

Here’s Sally Field reading the first chapter of <em>Remarkably Bright Creatures</em>.

Here’s Sally Field reading the first chapter of Remarkably Bright Creatures.

By Literary Hub | April 30, 2026

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

Including Books by Siri Hustvedt, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Todd Smith, and More

By Literary Hub | April 30, 2026

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