• Biography

    The Hub

    Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

     
    By James Folta  June 4, 2025
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

    By Aidan Ryan  June 4, 2025
    Sports History

    Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine’s Olympic Debut

    By Brendan O’Meara  June 2, 2025
    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    American Literature

    Bringing the War Home: How Tim O’Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

    By Alex Vernon  May 27, 2025
    The Writing Life

    The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

    By Arvind Ethan David  May 23, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Queer History

    Walking Through Jose Esteban Muñoz’s New York City

    By Marcos Gonsalez  May 23, 2025
    Anniversary

    Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

    By Hari Kunzru  May 22, 2025
    Autobiography

    “Writing is Fighting:” Inside Toni Morrison’s Literary Collaboration With Muhammad Ali

    By Melina Moe  May 19, 2025
    Sports

    Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

    Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

    By Mark Hussey  May 14, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    The Schomburg Library is turning 100 this year—and throwing an epic rager.

    By Brittany Allen  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 5, 2025
    Childhood

    How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

    By Peter Conrad  May 5, 2025
    Technology

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

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    Ancient Rome

    Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

    By Tom Holland  May 1, 2025
    Inspiration

    What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

    Cutter Wood on Thomas Browne and the Joys of Exploring What We Don't Know

    By Cutter Wood  April 28, 2025
    AIDS Activism

    Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

    By Steven W. Thrasher  April 24, 2025
    In Memoriam

    The Most Literary Pope:
    Requiescat in Pace, Francis

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 22, 2025
    On Poetry

    A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

    By Haleh Liza Gafori  April 22, 2025
    On Poetry

    On the Enduring Power of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust, 50 Years Later

    “The scenes of Holocaust unfold in Eastern Europe, but Reznikoff seems to suggest they could happen anywhere...”

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 18, 2025
    Music history

    On “Eleanor Rigby” as a Product of the Combined Genius of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

    By Ian Leslie  April 17, 2025
    Comics

    How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art

    By Dan Nadel  April 15, 2025
    Creative Nonfiction

    “Please Keep Caring.” What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists

    By Peter Hessler  May 19, 2025
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