Lit Life

Why Banu Mushtaq deserved her major book award for stories about a long-overlooked group of women

Writers play into the hands of pressure groups when they withhold valid criticisms of challenged books

I’d covered them as a journalist but didn’t realize their real aims until they came for my library

Jump into the conversation at my classic-short-stories club

Another look at my problems with an acclaimed novel

Something has gone badly wrong when you get 3 reads and earn $.08 for a boosted story on the first page of a Google search

A newly discovered manuscript shows that a lot of problems don’t go away after you’re famous

I liked the birds in books better until I found this one

How I made the painful decision to stop subscribing to a publication I’d loved after years as a reader