Literary Hub
Craft and Criticism
Literary Criticism
Craft and Advice
In Conversation
On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
Short Story
From the Novel
Poem
News and Culture
History
Science
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Food
Technology
Bookstores and Libraries
Film and TV
Travel
Music
Art and Photography
The Hub
Style
Design
Sports
BUY A HAT
Lit Hub Radio
The Lit Hub Podcast
Awakeners
Fiction/Non/Fiction
The Critic and Her Publics
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Memoir Nation
Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Thresholds
The Cosmic Library
Culture Schlock
Reading Lists
Reading Challenge
Book Marks
Best Reviewed Books
CrimeReads
True Crime
The Daily Thrill
Log In
Craft and Criticism
Fiction and Poetry
News and Culture
Lit Hub Radio
Reading Lists
Reading Challenge
Book Marks
CrimeReads
Log In
James Walvin
Reckoning with the Slave Empires of WWII
James Walvin on the Forced Labor of
Concentration Camps and Gulags
By
James Walvin
| September 20, 2019
How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings
James Walvin on the Unholy Trinity of Soft Drinks, Corn Syrup, and Capitalism
By
James Walvin
| April 5, 2018
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Mike Flanagan Made a TV adaptation of
Carrie
July 14, 2026
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Surfing, Bananas, and Runners: Agatha Christie's Grand Year of International Travel
July 14, 2026
by
Nancy West
How Pinellas County, Florida Shaped the Strange Life of Conman Paul Skalnik
July 14, 2026
by
Pamela Colloff
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Wonderfully dry intellectually frisky Mason is a lively fluid writer here he glides smoothly between…"