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Flour. Baking powder. Salt. Heavy cream or butter. These ingredients are the beginnings—of biscuits—as well as, for me, a literary community

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how muc

Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for any

The Meta founder answers your questions about Harvard style and how billionaires should spend their money.

I’m in my car, in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in South Pasadena. On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt La

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. You have some tricks. You’re a magazine writer, after all—you hav

When many of us think of African literature, the first thing that comes to mind is Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart. If you live in t

In Emily LaBarge’s new memoir, trauma’s intensity and unknowable nature impel her to try to communicate it.

New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.

A contract accepted under duress is typically considered voidable. My wife Helen is a lawyer, so she would understand this better than anyon

The letter that my eye doctor had sent to the state’s agency included diagnosis and prognosis, and it described my functional limitations: s

Britain’s textile boom depended on a resource extracted under brutal conditions far from its factories.

“To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville writes in Moby-Dick. In the US, one of the mightiest for the past

In 1989, a year into my judgeship in Denver County Court, I began writing at night about the last week of my father’s life—trying to underst