July 17, 2025
- When a book is a house
- Close-reads the promises of A.I. commercials
- John J. Lennon on consuming true crime in prison
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The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival
Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”
Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age
The Film Excels at Dramatizing the Practical Dangers of Living in a Digital World
New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of The Stacks, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!
Featuring Jonny Diamond, Traci Thomas, Olivia Rutigliano, Dan Sheehan, and Drew Broussard
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”
How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans
Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs on Their Shared Love For the TV Cult Favorite
Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel
“It gave me permission to indulge myself and my characters.”
How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway
Andy Anderegg on Writing a Book About Escaping When You’re Going in Circles
The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English
Moeen Farrokhi Considers the Spaces Between Language and Experience
Abolitionists and Confederates: On the Complex History of American Jews During the Civil War
Richard Kreitner Explores the Position of a Once-Enslaved People in a Society Marked by Slavery
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Katie Kitamura, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vauhini Vara, and More
Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind
Daryl Gregory Remembers the Reader Who Transformed His Storytelling
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