“When we keep our heads down and stay the course, the fascists continue to lie, extort like the mobsters they are, and humiliate and attack whoever they add to their list of enemies.” A call to academics across America to speak out against fascism. | Lit Hub Politics
Natalie Lawrence explores our enduring obsession with monsters and what the myth of the Minotaur unearths about human nature. | Lit Hub History
Ed Simon argues why in an era of national decline, the Great American Novel is still an idea worth pursuing. | Lit Hub Criticism
NaNoWriMo is shutting down, so you’ll just have to pick another month in which to write your novel. | Lit Hub Craft
“One writes what one has to write. One goes there. Then one takes the beating, in whatever form it takes.” How Norman Mailer taught Anthony Giardina to defend his own plots. | Lit Hub Craft
What both the infinite possibilities and gross misuses of genetic research reveal about the humans behind it. | Lit Hub Science
“at a park, river, skyscrapers / beyond; he does not want to be / locked.” Read “Architect’s Watercolor,” a poem by Arthur Sze from the collection Into the Hush. | Lit Hub Poetry
Alex Hutchinson on how calculated risk-taking can lead to scientific innovation: “We search for new ideas in much the same way as we wander through the streets of an unfamiliar city...” | Lit Hub Science
“The job was quickly organised by my father so I could repay the money I had borrowed for my travels and debaucheries.” Read from Maggie Armstrong’s story collection, Old Romantics. | Lit Hub Fiction
