• Craft and Criticism

    Reissues

    A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke’s Lord Jim at Home

    "I didn’t care, and I didn’t worry, but I was suspended, consistently and dramatically, in the mirage of the novel."

     
    By Ottessa Moshfegh  September 14, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

    By Literary Hub  September 14, 2023
    The Maris Review

    John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

    By The Maris Review  September 14, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 14, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 14, 2023
    Comics

    On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel’s Fantastic Four

    By Jerry Craft  September 13, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Existentialism

    James Reich on Existential Fiction and the Imprint of Nature

    By James Reich  September 13, 2023
    Music

    On the Generative Nostalgia of Old Manuscripts

    By Nick Ripatrazone  September 13, 2023
    On Writing

    A Small Parenthesis: How Gardens and Stories Can Create Space to Breathe

    By Juan Cárdenas  September 13, 2023
    Writing Spaces

    What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process

    Carol Dunbar on the Risk and Romance of Working in a Water Tower

    By Carol Dunbar  September 14, 2023
    Translation

    Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

    By Jordan Stump  September 12, 2023
    In Conversation

    Christian Kiefer on Sewing a Quilt of Distinct Narrative Voices

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 12, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Naomi Klein on Running Towards the Burning Building

    By Talk Easy  September 12, 2023
    Climate Crisis

    Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

    Michaela Cavanagh Reads Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening

    By Michaela Cavanagh  September 11, 2023
    Classics

    How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

    By Robert Macfarlane  September 11, 2023
    Animals

    Learning to Write About Pets When You Aren’t An Animal Person

    By LaToya Watkins  September 11, 2023
    Trauma and Healing

    The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

    By Catherine Buni  September 11, 2023
    On Poetry

    Taylor Byas on The Wiz, Pop Culture in Poetry, and Black Women’s Histories

    The Poet on Her New Collection I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

    By Literary Hub  September 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Lang Leav on Fiction and Authenticity

    By Keen On  September 11, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Maaheen Ahmed on the Dynamism of Comics

    By History of Literature  September 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Jimin Han on Unconventional Points of View

    By Write-minded   September 11, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Sean Michaels on Collaborating with AI to Write a Novel

    "What will we do with its work when it is good? How will we reckon then with what this tool can do?"

    By Sean Michaels  September 8, 2023
    New Books Network

    Em X. Liu on Putting Hamlet in a Sci-Fi Lab

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Kai Bird on Joining Martin Sherwin to Write Oppenheimer’s Biography

    By The Literary Life  September 8, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 12, 2023
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