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prose
Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories
“Imperfect and thorny, but just strange enough to kindle fear.”
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| October 31, 2025
Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self
Diana Khoi Nguyen in Conversation with the Author of “The Girl Who Became a Rabbit”
By
Diana Khoi Nguyen
| September 19, 2024
Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, and the Surprising Power of “Once Upon a Time”
A Conversation on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, Stories, and the Surprising Power of "Once Upon a Time"
By
Matthew Zapruder
| April 5, 2023
What Makes Writing Valuable?
William Pierce Addresses a Fraught Subject
By
William Pierce
| December 16, 2022
Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing
“Style is your filter on all of this... how it summons language in you, how life comes to be alive on the page.”
By
Sam Lipsyte
| December 9, 2022
“Loyalty Rather Than Love,” by Nadifa Mohamed
Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival
By
Nadifa Mohamed
| May 11, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Kim Adrian on Listening to What Our Nonfiction Is Trying to Tell Us
By
Kim Adrian
| May 24, 2019
The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker
By
Douglas A. Martin
| November 30, 2017
Sandra Cisneros: Telling the Truth in Poetry and Prose
By
Sara Di Blasi
| February 2, 2017
Basking in Shirley Hazzard's Pure, Cold Light
Mary Duffy Remembers the Shimmering Crispness of Hazzard's Prose
By
Mary Duffy
| December 15, 2016
The Sick Bag Song
Nick Cave
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| November 17, 2016
Interview with a Gatekeeper: Wave Books' Matthew Zapruder
On Music, Translation, and How he Came to Understanding Poetry
By
Kerri Arsenault
| November 10, 2016
On the Many Ways and Reasons to Mix Poetry and Prose
Contributing to A Long-Standing and Very Various Tradition
By
Lucy Ives
| August 3, 2016
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"