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“You’ve Told Me This Joke Before”
It started with a toaster and ended with a Maytag ...
A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationsh...
According to Smithsonian Magazine, Sylvia Plath us...
Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Wri...
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing ...
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in t...
I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, whe...
Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have S...
One day in 1970, Hobby Lobby’s oft-told origin sto...
On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diaspori...
In the twenty-first century, the debates about con...
“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman
As if in moments lay plummets down which a putteri...
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Presen...
For novelist Cris Judar, language and bodies are c...
Why Americans can’t seem to quit Little House on t...
This month, a fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wi...
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Lit...
The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s ...
Lit Hub Daily: July 23, 2026
Kōhei Saitō examines why solutions rooted in capit...
Paradise Pawn
When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, D...
Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?
Who’s the better narrator for an audiobook: the au...
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between st...
For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy t...
The worldwide environmental destruction brought ab...
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It ...
A recent essay in The New Republic asks why histor...
God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Cult...
Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell are both historians...
The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is R...
Attending a reading from Victoria Chang a few year...
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund
Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts W...
Lit Hub Daily: July 22, 2026
Why writing alt text image descriptions is an act ...
























