In my forthcoming debut novel, the Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford, nearly every terrible thing that can happen ...

Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What ...

I was no virgin when I met my husband, and he knew it. We have been monogamous, but I wouldn’t call myself chaste. (I can ...

The Blind Man on Bloor Street On my second day in Toronto, buffeted by the wind, taking a morning walk, dwarfed and darkened in the shadows of the first tall buildings I’d seen in Canada, I came ...

Many readers are perplexed by Austen’s habit of indicating men’s fortunes in terms of annual income, while women’s fortunes ...

The literary world is finally asking a question it has dodged for years: What can a human writer do that artificial ...

Preserved like frozen eddies in the whirlwind of a moral panic are the words of a national journalist, days after J.K. Rowling publishes her essay on the threat of the trans rights movement. Shona ...

On the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, my best friend Dani, also a writer, wrote to tell me that Robin Morgan, the ...

For years, mainstream media have parroted the language of their own governments, and that of lsrael, with little critical ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology ...

A Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned ...

The Coral Coast Highway, considered one of the world’s greatest road trips, starts in Perth, Australia, and follows the ...