• Biography

    Just the Right Book

    Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

    By Just the Right Book   June 29, 2023
    English History

    How Queen Elizabeth I Remembered and Honored Her Mother, Anne Boleyn

    By Tracy Borman  June 28, 2023
    Work

    Henry David Thoreau Was Funnier Than You Think, Particularly on the Subject of Work

    By John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle  June 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of Vitality From Walt Whitman to Donald Trump

    By Keen On  June 26, 2023
    News and Culture

    More Than A Children’s Story: The Velveteen Rabbit At 100

    By Lisa Rowe Fraustino  June 23, 2023
    Women's History

    How Audrey Clare Farley Rewrote the Story of the Genain Quadruplets

    By Audrey Clare Farley  June 22, 2023
    Read Smart

    “Born in Sin.” Patrick Radden Keefe Talks Narrative Nonfiction

    By Read Smart  June 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    “A Race Problem.” Jolene Hubbs on Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

    By History of Literature  June 20, 2023
    Bloomsday

    Happy Bloomsday! Turn off your wifi and read some Joyce.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Santi Elijah Holley on the Shakurs: From the Black Panthers to Tupac

    By Keen On  June 14, 2023
    Literary History

    Literary Friends to Enemies: Why Graham Greene Hated Anthony Burgess

    By Michael Mewshaw  June 9, 2023
    What to Watch

    Parting Glances: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

    By Paul Morton  June 8, 2023
    Lit Hub Radio

    Chad Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World

    By Keen On  June 7, 2023
    Read Smart

    Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

    By Read Smart  June 6, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

    By History of Literature  June 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard

    By Lucy Scholes  June 2, 2023
    Queer Literature

    The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

    By Cat Sebastian  June 1, 2023
    Film

    From the Ashes of Failure: On Cary Grant, Crop Dusters, and Character Arcs

    By Meg Shaffer  June 1, 2023
    The Hub

    The world pays respect to Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana’s late author-playwright.

    By Janet Manley  May 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

    By Keen On  May 31, 2023
    Journalism

    On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

    By David Chrisinger  May 30, 2023
    Chefs

    From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

    By Laura Tillman  May 30, 2023
    Queer History

    Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

    By Amelia Possanza  May 30, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 30, 2023
    Journalism

    From Rarefied to Beloved: The Path from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion

    By Brooke Kroeger  May 25, 2023
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