Kristen Arnett’s Lit Hub column takes on reader-centric writing advice, asking whether chasing audience approval is killing the creative instinct behind literary fiction.

Survival stories flood screens and podcasts as modern life grows more insulated. What does the obsession reveal about comfort, anxiety, and what we think we want?

Barry Keoghan steps away from four Beatles biopics to make Lemonade, a drama rooted in the Irish foster-care system he grew up in.

A Filipino rice farmer’s one-minute seizure led doctors to MRI-confirmed brain worm eggs from S. japonicum, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine.