Literature
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Lit Hub Daily: March 25, 2025
Jamie Hood defends the earnest, the sentimental, a...
The terror of the ludicrous
On Sunday morning, I listened as usual to “Broadc...
Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains N...
When #MeToo happened, everything women wrote about...
Graydon Carter on The Golden Age of Magazines
What two better editors to discuss the Golden Age ...
Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism R...
More than a decade ago, I wrote an essay called “B...
Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Bo...
One of the first stories I’d published was about a...
The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Cre...
When I was nine years old my mother temporarily mo...
A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Litera...
Lorraine O’Grady didn’t become an artist until she...
Elphie
As Elphie begins to command the world about her (e...
A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults...
The wheel of the year continues, as ever, to turn,...
Here are the winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell ...
The eight winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Pri...
A Small Press Book We Love: Little Blue Encycloped...
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the li...
Lit Hub Daily: March 24, 2025
“The MFA nearly stomped out my desire to write.” F...
What the Mysterious Mating Habits of an Enigmatic ...
In all animals mating is a deal: one sex donates a...
On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stori...
We first entered one another’s orbit when I was te...
How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Ea...
I had a little bird Its name was Enza I opened the...
Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Mar...
For the first few days in Accra I only had one tho...
Farid Mutak on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Com...
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a n...
Little Meals for Little Ones: On the Joys of Shari...
Cooking with children is a learning process that i...
“An Attempt at Human Relations”
The woman invited the man over for dinner and a mo...