• Memoir

    Recovery

    “When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

    “I wrote into that darkness because that kind of honesty was the only thing that felt right.”

     
    By Matthew Nienow  January 22, 2025
    Spirituality

    Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

    By Pico Iyer  January 21, 2025
    Dogs

    Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

    By Markus Zusak  January 21, 2025
    Mothers and Sons

    Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

    By Andy Corren  January 16, 2025
    Boyhood

    A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

    By Lee Hawkins  January 16, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Translation

    Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English:
    On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

    By Sahar Delijani  January 14, 2025
    Trauma

    Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

    By Gabeba Baderoon  January 10, 2025
    Family Histories

    From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

    By Emily Yates-Doerr  January 9, 2025
    Television

    All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

    Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV

    By Kristen Martin  January 22, 2025
    On Reading

    From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

    By Gloria L. Huang  January 8, 2025
    The Natural World

    Paradise in Progress: On Creating a Natural Refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains

    By Paula Whyman  January 6, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    Crumple Zone: What Car Crashes Reveal About Human Hubris and Fragility

    By Sara Mitchell  January 3, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Henry James

    On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

    By Katherine J. Chen  December 19, 2024
    The Natural World

    In Search of the Perfect Piece of Wood

    By Callum Robinson  December 12, 2024
    Literary Heroes

    Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

    By Nathan Deuel  December 11, 2024
    On Reading

    Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

    Orlando Reade on Privilege, Freedom and the Importance of Reading Disobediently

    By Orlando Reade  December 10, 2024
    Gaza

    Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

    By Susan Abulhawa  December 6, 2024
    AIDS

    On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?

    By Heather McCalden  December 2, 2024
    New York City

    “Small But Unforgettable Moments.” What E.B. White Loved About New York City

    By Martha White  November 25, 2024
    Divorce

    Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy

    Kim Young on What It Means to Survive a First Marriage

    By Kim Young  November 21, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

    By Abigail Thomas  November 21, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
    On Race

    Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America’s Criminal Justice System

    By Irvin Weathersby Jr.  January 8, 2025
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