• Politics

    Globalization

    What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

    Ian Kumekawa Explores the Transformation of Global Trade Through the Objects That Power It

     
    By Ian Kumekawa  May 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Trump’s NEA is terminating hundreds of grants in literature, theater, and the arts.

    By James Folta  May 5, 2025
    Law

    Why the Legal Profession Needs to Resist Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Intimidation Tactics

    By Aron Solomon  May 5, 2025
    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    The Hub

    A brief literary history of May Day.

    By Brittany Allen  May 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

    By Jonny Diamond  May 1, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Totalitarianism

    Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

    By Zoe Roth  April 30, 2025
    Science fiction

    Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

    By Tobias Carroll  April 30, 2025
    The Hub

    Another reason to love Pedro Pascal? He called J.K. Rowling a “heinous loser.”

    By Brittany Allen  April 28, 2025
    craft advice

    I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

    Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

    By Kevin Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    Biology

    Science in America is Going Dark:
    On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 25, 2025
    Corruption

    From Lagos to Calgary the Resource Curse Condemns Nations to Corruption and Autocracy

    By Don Gillmor  April 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Time to re-read The Masses, the 1910s literary magazine crushed by government censorship.

    By James Folta  April 24, 2025
    The Hub

    What if the final meeting between V.P. Vance and Pope Francis took place in a Dan Brown novel?

    By James Folta  April 22, 2025
    Travel

    Following in Elephants’ Footsteps: Packing for a Congo Expedition in the 1800s, and Now

    By Sophy Roberts  April 22, 2025
    Immigrant Stories

    The Quiet Trauma of the Uprooted: Confronting the Origin Myths of Cuban Refugee Families

    By Ana Hebra Flaster  April 22, 2025
    Palestine

    Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

    By Sarah Aziza  April 22, 2025
    Trans Rights

    Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University

    “There is no way to play three-dimensional chess with bigots.”

    By Lydia Kiesling  April 21, 2025
    Social Justice

    Copaganda on the News: On the Crucial Stories the Media Ignores

    By Alec Karakatsanis  April 18, 2025
    Parenting

    How the Child Welfare System Prioritizes Autonomous Family Units, and Punishes Disabled Parents

    By Jessica Slice  April 18, 2025
    Nationalism

    “Is Canada a Viable Country?” Yes, According to American Literature

    By Brooke Clark  April 17, 2025
    Espionage

    On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families

    Shaun Walker on the Past and Present of a Classic Cold War Espionage Operation

    By Shaun Walker  April 16, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump administration is coming for American history. Here’s what we can do to fight back.

    By Brittany Allen  April 14, 2025
    Empowerment

    Beyond Institutions: Why Black Empowerment Must Bridge the Opportunity Gap

    By Andre M. Perry  April 14, 2025
    Trans History

    Uncovering the Forgotten: The Struggle For Trans History, From Nazi Germany to Today

    By Milo Todd  April 28, 2025
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