Rachel Cusk Tried to Caricature Natalie Portman. She Only Caricatured Herself.
Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.…
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Book Review: ‘Hometown,’ by Shaun Tan
As Shaun Tan reminds us with his stand-alone follow-up to “The Arrival,” some truths are so enormous, so…
Lit Hub Daily: August 27, 2026
What do you do when your writing group thinks your story’s hilarious (when it’s not supposed to be)?…
A Book Crawl in Picturesque Brooklyn
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, takes you to her favorite bookstores in…
Help, My Writing Group Think My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be
Hello again, gentle readers! Welcome back to another delightful installment of everyone’s favorite bimonthly drunken advice column, Am…
What It Means to Love Elliott Smith
One of the last videos taken of Elliott Smith shows him at the Fonda Theatre, in Los Angeles.…
The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page
For years, I believed people avoided letter writing because they lacked time. But after teaching leadership, communication, and…
Short But Sweet: Nine Novellas To Read In a Single Afternoon
In anticipation of the publication of my novella, American Moon, I’ve been thinking a lot about the form.…
A Poetry of Witness and Invention: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Translating Antonella Anedda
“In my poetry,” she said, “there has always been an emphasis on concrete detail, put more simply, I…
Roy Cohn, Robert Mapplethorpe and a Trump-Era Dilemma Over Free Speech
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries…