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This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | October 10, 2025

Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

“What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?”

By Douglas Unger | August 29, 2025

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

By Emily Buchanan | July 18, 2025

Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

Tramaine Suubi Recommends Toi Derricotte, Toni Morrison, Deesha Philyaw, and More

By Tramaine Suubi | May 9, 2025

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

The Author of “Dust and Light” Shares Her Formative Influences for Using Fact in Fiction

By Andrea Barrett | February 26, 2025

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Joy Castro in Conversation with the Author of “The Only Sound Is the Wind”

By Joy Castro | October 1, 2024

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The Gift of Reading Toni Morrison to My Black Daughter in an Age of Book Bans

By Rae Giana Rashad | February 13, 2024

The Urgent Importance of Making Space for Stories from the Farmworking Community

By Literary Hub | November 9, 2023

Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

By Dan Sinykin | October 24, 2023

What I Learned About Writing From Reviewing

What I Learned About Writing From Reviewing

Bethanne Patrick Works Backwards From the Criticism to a Great Book

By Bethanne Patrick | May 22, 2023

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies

Caleb Smith on Beloved’s “Reanimating Act of Attention”

By Caleb Smith | February 1, 2023

On the Historical Fiction That Lives in the Space Between History and Myth

On the Historical Fiction That Lives in the Space Between History and Myth

Phong Nguyen Recommends Books by Naguib Mahfouz, C Pam Zhang, and More

By Phong Nguyen | September 1, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: Melissa Chadburn on the Books She’s Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: Melissa Chadburn on the Books She’s Reading Now and Next

The First in a New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | April 12, 2022

Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

Mary Kuryla Recommends Toni Morrison, Joy Williams, T Kira Madden, and Others

By Mary Kuryla | February 16, 2022

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

“We are writing ourselves closer to the ideals purported at the founding.”

By David Wright Faladé | February 15, 2022

Bernardine Evaristo on Lessons Learned From Toni Morrison

Bernardine Evaristo on Lessons Learned From Toni Morrison

“As a writer, Morrison asks us to do some of the work.”

By Bernardine Evaristo | February 3, 2022

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