Ekin Oklap discusses the intensity of adolescence, antidotes to loneliness, and how early experiences shape our lives

The AMERICAN HAGWON author on many shitty drafts, pleasing the ancestors, and finding answers to her questions

Our review of Hieu Minh Nguyen's new poetry collection, "Staying Still"

Maintaining a robust media landscape requires understanding how and why to support independent media.

Chugga Chugga I stand by the window, toddler on my hip. We watch trains surge by the dead-end street. He waves and says die. I say buh buh bye train. Thinking again, say hi train, bye train. That i…

The "Westside Love Map" is on display through March and includes hand-drawn maps of Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park along with a short film featuring the stories of 14 West Siders.

Hendrik Luup   CC ​ Sambuca  You say a thought is not a thing, but it is a thing. Thoughts have thingness. They are born and they grow, do things, fade, die. One drunk thought runs his car into...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

A Girl Sitting Next to Me on a Plane to Cincinnati Asks Me Where I Am from She turns to me somewhere above the clouds, twenty years old maybe, with eyes wide open the way I, too, used to have. Wher…

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

wiping our assetswith his BS — Roberta Beach Jacobson

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more

‘Two men stood on the street – good enough for me. “And do you consider yourselves socialist or not?” I inquired.’ William T. Vollmann visits Cuba.

The industry stands to gain the most from Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement. Many writers aren’t happy about it.

Laura didn’t remember moving to Platte, Nebraska. She had only been three when her father took the job of planning commissioner for the county. Nor did she remember a moment when Carrie wasn’t her …

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, …

Like Sylvie, the protagonist of my new novel, Wayfarers, I grew up in downstate cornfield Illinois, where I was an odd duck in a small pond. I was always reading, always writing. Poetry, and storie…

In an open letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson, Arts Alliance lllinois says that even in a tough budget cycle, “The arts should be a key part of Chicago’s FY2027 economic strategy.”

The musical's producers, and current star Reece Weaver, open up about how nontraditional casting has fueled the show's longevity.

Today’s poem is Dream Song 1 by John Berryman, with special guest David Duchovny.

cloudburst the Dairy Queen ringed by Harleys

I pull paper from the printer. Find half-empty unlined notebooks

A collection of stories tracing how queer people have built communities, challenged norms, and preserved their histories.

My newborn twins are finally asleep. White noise chirring, dawn beginning to hum through the bedroom’s linen curtains, and I’m studying their identical bald heads—the twins are not iden…

Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media

Dystel, Goderich & Bourret has resigned from the Association of American Literary Agents in protest over the organization’s new Canon of Ethics, the agency announced. The agency takes issue specifical...

The Guild is asking publishers to more equitably divvy up Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement for certain claims, noting many houses will receive large payouts while most authors will get nothing more...

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

Data from 771 professionals surveyed by the Book Industry Study Group and BookNet Canada found publishers’ AI use at the organizational level jumped to 63%, from 48% in 2025, while individual use drop...

We are pleased to announce The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Longlist. This year, we received over 180 submitted titles with U.S. publication dates between January 1 and December 31, 2026....

Penguin Random House has established a scholarship program for high school seniors with outstanding creative writing skills who plan to continue their education in college.

The author of Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems (Knopf, 2026) encourages poets to let truth surprise them in the writing process.

“Sometimes I know I need to just observe and live life and let the writing come later.” —Tomas Moniz, author of The King of Aloe Vera

Our list of 250 MFA programs for creative writers includes essential information about low-residency and full-residency graduate creative writing programs in the United States and other English-speaki...

SALEM, Ore. — A local, historically beloved corn maze at Briar Ridge Farms is receiving pushback from the community, who are complaining... Get the full story

Journalist Amy Littlefield implicates the right and the left in the death of abortion rights.

The conventional wisdom is that critics don't make good novelists. Chris Kraus, Ben Eastham, and Elvia Wilk complicate the conversation.

Sentences are short, books are novellas, essays are TikToks, and reading is apparently dead. Is our civilization doomed?

Finding wisdom in the vocabulary of trees

After Cora’s death I had a recurring dream. A heavy black cloud would pass over me. The cloud was evil. I don’t mean that evil was among the incidental properties of the cloud, like its color or it…