Literature
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NaNoWriMo is shutting down.
Looks like that’s the end of the manuscript for Na...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with FSG’s Dial-A-...
The American Academy of Poets launched National Po...
Museums in Sudan
I have only once been to Sudan, more than fifteen ...
February 2025
In February, Emma Garland investigated the myth of...
‘The tiny ant …’
The ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de’Medici (1449–92)...
January 2025
In January, Josephine Crawley Quinn surveyed Ital...
Lit Hub Daily: April 1, 2025
“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her ...
Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts O...
I’m tempted to suggest you skip this introduction ...
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summ...
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go a...
On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Su...
In my mid-twenties, I was married for about a year...
Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?
“Don’t worry,” one of the other moms assured me wh...
“Jailbreak of Sparrows,” a Poem by Martín Espada
Jailbreak of Sparrows My grandmother caught cousin...
On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Y...
At the end of my 2005 novel, The Bright Forever, a...
“The Fifth Story”
(“A quinta história”) This story could be called “...
Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! ...
It’s April 1st, the first of the month in a year t...
The five kinds of party girls you find in literatu...
Spring is soiree season. You heard it here first. ...
March’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, Karen Russell’s Th...
March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Helen Garner’s How to End a Story, Graydon Carter’...
From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Mus...
Each month, we here at Lit Hub pore over literally...
A retailer of tales
Yusuf is twelve when he leaves his home and family...