Making Meaning: Why Symbolic Interpretation Matters in Art and Literature

Making Meaning: Why Symbolic Interpretation Matters in Art and Literature

Ed Simon on Defending the Symbolic and René Magritte’s Le Coeur du Monde

By Ed Simon | December 23, 2025

Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?

Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?

David Berry on the Long Tradition of Artists as Critics, From Xie He to Charles Baudelaire

By David Berry | December 22, 2025

Why Clearing Stormfall <br>With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Why Clearing Stormfall
With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Claire Thompson Considers the Unlikely Physicality
of Writing (on a Good Day)

By Claire Thompson | December 22, 2025

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | December 19, 2025

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

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

By Brittany Allen | December 19, 2025

Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh on <em>Parable of the Sower</em>, and Her Love of Sci-Fi

Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh on Parable of the Sower, and Her Love of Sci-Fi

“There’s so much book in that book.”

By James Folta | December 19, 2025

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From Hitchhiking the Sahara (and Storing Hash in the Garage) to Co-Founding MTV and Running Viacom

By Terry McDonell | December 19, 2025

Beyond Memoir: A Roundtable on Health, Identity, and the Invisible Injury We Aren’t Talking About

By Molly Gaudry, Carmen Giménez, D/Annie Liontas | December 19, 2025

Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them

By Gary Knight | December 19, 2025

Kat Abughazaleh Swears by Octavia Butler on <em>The Lit Hub Podcast</em>

Kat Abughazaleh Swears by Octavia Butler on The Lit Hub Podcast

Plus, Jonny Diamond reading “A Visit from St. Nicholas”!

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 19, 2025

Two stories about three brothers you should check out this holiday season.

Two stories about three brothers you should check out this holiday season.

By James Folta | December 18, 2025

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My <em>Harry Potter</em> Fandom as a Trans Person

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

Sandy Ernest Allen Confronts J.K. Rowling’s Virulent Transphobia

By Sandy Ernest Allen | December 18, 2025

Hitler and My Mother-In-Law (and the Slippery Terrain of Truth)

Hitler and My Mother-In-Law (and the Slippery Terrain of Truth)

Terese Svoboda on What Happens When We Mix Personal Memories with Public Histories

By Terese Svoboda | December 18, 2025

An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos.

An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos.

By Brittany Allen | December 17, 2025

Meet the cool new magazine that’s taking the globe by storm.

Meet the cool new magazine that’s taking the globe by storm.

By Brittany Allen | December 17, 2025

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form

By Gerri Kimber | December 17, 2025

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