• Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • About
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • The Virtual Book Channel
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • Food
    • Travel
    • Style
    • Design
    • Science
    • Technology
    • History
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Freeman’s
    • Sports
    • The Hub
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • Behind the Mic
    • Beyond the Page
    • Big Table
    • Book Dreams
    • Emergence Magazine
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Just the Right Book
    • Keen On
    • Literary Disco
    • The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
    • The Maris Review
    • Micro
    • New Books Network
    • NewberyTart
    • Open Form
    • Otherppl with Brad Listi
    • So Many Damn Books
    • Storybound
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Thresholds
    • Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre
    • Unlikeable Female Characters
    • Ursa
    • WMFA
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
    • BookMarks Daily Giveaway
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
    • CrimeReads Daily Giveaway

On Death

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

“Maybe the only thing death will ever be able to teach us about is life.”

 
By Alex Kiester  December 18, 2020
On Death

A Letter From Dorothy Gallagher to Her Late Husband Ben Sonnenberg

By Dorothy Gallagher  October 15, 2020
On Death

On the Challenges of Writing About Death

By Annie Lyons  September 22, 2020
On Death

In a Family of Readers, Packing Up My Late Father’s Library Was Hardest of All

By Seth Greenland  September 16, 2020
On Death

What if Medicine is Not About Preserving Life, But About Humanity?

By Rachel Clarke  September 9, 2020
On Death

The Exhibit That Challenged Our Understanding of Death and the Human Body

By John Troyer  April 29, 2020
On Death

An Intimate Look at Medically Assisted Death

By Diane Rehm  February 13, 2020
On Death

There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

By Denise Riley  February 10, 2020
On Death

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
On Death

Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

By John James  June 14, 2019
On Death

Death and the Poet: Thinking of Whitman at My Husband’s Grave

By Kathleen Volk Miller  May 30, 2019
On Death

Edwidge Danticat on Death, Haiti, and Silver Linings

By Literary Hub  December 2, 2015
  • Lit hub Radio

    Podcasts, Audiobooks + More
    Now Playing:
    All Stations
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  • Lithub Daily

    July 6, 2022

    • Read an early short story by Shirley Jackson.
    • Nicole Chung offers negotiation tips for writers.
    • Is the “apron-tugger” the new bodice-ripper?
  • Close

    to the Lithub Daily

    Thank you for subscribing!
  • Popular Posts

    • 1.
      “The Act of Mourning Itself is a Final, Destitute Version of Love.” A Reading List For the GrievingJune 30, 2022 by Sally Oliver
      0
    • 2.
      The Language of Loneliness: Five Books That Reckon With Not BelongingJune 30, 2022 by Paddy Crewe
      0
    • 3.
      In One of Her Last Interviews, Joan Didion Talks to Hari Kunzru About Loss, Blue Nights, and Giving Up the Yellow CorvetteJune 29, 2022 by Hari Kunzru
      0
    • 4.
      A “Chinese Borges” wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.June 28, 2022 by Jonny Diamond
      0
    • The Best New Crime Novels Coming Out in JulyJuly 6, 2022 by CrimeReads
    • Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in BrooklynJuly 6, 2022 by Douglas Century
    • Southern Gothic Crime Fiction: A Palimpsest and PrimerJuly 6, 2022 by Faye Snowden
    • Into the Past:
      Blood Transfusions in the Seventeenth Century
      July 6, 2022 by Robert Lloyd
    • 10 New Books Coming Out This WeekJuly 5, 2022 by CrimeReads
    • 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
      to Jump-Start Your July
      July 6, 2022
    • AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of JuneJuly 5, 2022 by Book Marks
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the MonthJuly 1, 2022 by Book Marks
    • 5 Reviews You Need to Read This WeekJune 30, 2022 by Book Marks
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the WeekJune 24, 2022 by Book Marks
  • Follow us on Twitter

    My Tweets
  • Like us on Facebook

    Like us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter

    My Tweets
  • RSS

    • RSS - Posts
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead


    About


    Advertisers: Contact Us


    Privacy Policy



  • © LitHub
    Back to top