• Memoir

    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

     
    By Literary Hub  December 20, 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

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    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
    Henry James

    On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

    Katherine J. Chen Rediscovers James (and Falls in Love)

    By Katherine J. Chen  December 19, 2024
    Religion

    Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

    By Jessie Van Eerden  November 20, 2024
    Being Trans

    Waking Up Trans in Trump’s America

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 15, 2024
    Politics

    They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

    By Mirza Waheed  November 13, 2024
    Protest Art

    A Gesture Larger Than Death: On Bill T. Jones’s AIDS Elegy “Still/Here” at 30

    Jen Benka Considers Art in the Face of Cataclysm

    By Jen Benka  November 13, 2024
    Family Stories

    Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

    By Linda Grant  November 13, 2024
    Science Writing

    Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

    By Anna Farro Henderson  November 11, 2024
    The Hub

    Dorothy Allison, author and force of nature, has died.

    By Brittany Allen  November 8, 2024
    Class

    How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

    Jaydra Johnson on the Intersections of Literature, Classism and Family History

    By Jaydra Johnson  November 8, 2024
    On Grief

    On Illness and Death as Text and Autocorrect

    By Malwina Gudowska  November 7, 2024
    Animals

    What Chickens Know: On Bonding with Birds and the Language of Hens

    By Sy Montgomery  November 7, 2024
    Abortion

    That Kind of Woman: On Motherhood As a Choice, Not a Destiny

    By Honor Moore  November 7, 2024
    The Natural World

    The Journey of a Sea Bean: In Praise of the Ocean’s Smallest Gifts

    Sally Huband: “I am left contemplating this luck.”

    By Sally Huband  November 6, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The Issues 2024: LGBTQ Rights Are in Grave Danger

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2024
    Politics

    The 10 Best Formally Inventive Queer Memoirs 

    By Catherine Habgood  November 4, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
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