• Craft and Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  July 31, 2025
    In Conversation

    Eric Puchner on Humor, Craft, and Creating “Perfect Ambivalence” on the Page

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 31, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

    By AudioFile Magazine  July 31, 2025
    literary criticism

    “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
    In Conversation

    Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

    By Eric Olson  July 30, 2025
    Storytelling

    The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

    By Kate Weinberg  July 30, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  July 30, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 30, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
    Motherhood

    Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

    By Rachel Deutsch  July 29, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rax King! Writers on writing! Gwyneth Paltrow? 16 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 29, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

    By Ha Jin  July 28, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Small Book, Big Ideas: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Art of Imagination

    By Philip Nel  July 28, 2025
    On Poetry

    Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2025
    Write-minded

    John B. King on the Career Memoir

    By Memoir Nation   July 28, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

    By Katie Yee  July 25, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 25, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Temptress, Shapeshifter, Bird, Fish: Seven Books That Explore the Myths of Sirens

    By Kalie Cassidy  July 25, 2025
    Craft

    On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 25, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 24, 2025
    Palestine

    On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 24, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith, and American Authoritarians

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 24, 2025
    Hybridity

    On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

    By Melody Glenn  July 23, 2025
    On Faith

    Searching For Divine Love: On the Literary Landscape of Conversion Experiences

    By Terry Nguyen  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
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