Literature

In a time of great collective precarity—both political and economic—long-held literary greats came through with novels that asked the burning...

I am a writer and a literary agent, which means between my personal and professional lives, much of my time...

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The following is an excerpt from A Left-Handed Woman: Essays by Judith Thurman, and first appeared in Lit Hub’s The...

Dear Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow King and Queen, Dewdrop Fairy, Dewdrops, Turkish Twirlers, Mother Ginger, Mother Ginger’s Bébés, Dancing Flowers,...

I sold a book this past year, a memoir in essays that now I have to… actually sit down and...

“Big-city crime hits a small town in the Adirondacks, and an eclectic and well-developed cast of characters leads us through...

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (more commonly...

The first graphic novelist to be nominated for the Booker Prize, Nick Drnaso possesses an uncanny ability to tap into...

Winter I: On the tail end of a months-long Edith Wharton bender, I embarked on Hermione Lee’s biography, where she...

Barnes & Noble has a plan to open 30 stores in 2023, making the bookseller the leader in what’s being...

Whether it’s urging fellow essayists to reject conventional writing wisdom or subverting the expected emotional responses to the death of...

2022 was, for me, cleaved in half, courtesy of a cataclysmic heartbreak that fell right at the year’s midpoint. I...

North Texas isn’t new to these bigoted complaints and districts other than Granbury have also come under the federal government’s...

Noah Baumbach’s crackerjack, whizbang adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise is one of the year’s great surprises. Not because Baumbach...