Teaching Poetry in Prison
Zachary Lazar on a Writing Class of Undergraduate and Incarcerated Students
Sofia Samatar on Kafka, Binge-Writing and the Search For Monsters
The Author of Monster Portraits in Conversation with Amina Cain
My Father’s Crimes Exist in Everything I Write
Michael Nye on the Inescapable Autobiography of His First Novel
Joyce Carol Oates on Dystopia, Boxing, and Reading Problematic Classics
In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Winter Kept Us Warm
Anne Raeff
“Postwar Germany was rife with opportunities, and Ulli soon found her place in the postwar economy.”
Dani Shapiro on the Hard Art of Balancing Writing and Social Media
When Introverts Need to Be Extroverts
A Rare Look at Correspondence from Arthur Miller to His Wife, Mary
LitFilm, Brooklyn Public Library's New Literary Film Festival, Begins Next Week
Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
Antarctic Adventures, Haunted Swedish Woods, Zodiac Bars, and More
Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski’s Life’s Work
An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood
One of Our Greatest Inventions: The Beauty of the Brick
Engineer Roma Agrawal Delves Into the Science of Materials
Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?”
Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
“This is all, ultimately, a litany of madness—the colors of it, the sounds it makes in heavy nights, the chirping of it across the shoulder of the morning.”
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