• Biography

    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

     
    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2024
    Underreported

    An annotated list of things Raymond Chandler hated recently sold for $2000 at auction.

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    Doctors

    How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

    By Lydia Reeder  December 9, 2024
    Book Bans

    Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025

    By Brittany Allen  December 4, 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

    By Kim Young  November 21, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read if you can’t wait for the next season of You Must Remember This.

    By Brittany Allen  November 19, 2024
    Diaries

    How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

    By Carl Rollyson  November 19, 2024
    Music history

    A Musical Divorce: How Money Problems and a Bad Manager Tore the Beatles Apart

    Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair on the Protracted End of a Band That Transformed Rock and Roll Forever

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2024
    The Royal Family

    Victoria’s Secret: How a Teenage Girl Became the Queen of England

    By Anne Somerset  November 18, 2024
    Founding Fathers

    Benjamin Franklin: As Much Scientist As Statesman

    By Richard Munson  November 14, 2024
    The Royal Family

    The Mystery of Wallis Simpson’s Visit to Shanghai and Her Search for the Elusive “Hurry-Up” Divorce

    By Paul French  November 13, 2024
    Literary Icons

    Eve and Joan: Exploring the Tumultuous Friendship of LA’s Literary Ladies

    Lili Anolik on the Irresistible Draw of Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, Two Iconic Chroniclers of California

    By Lili Anolik  November 12, 2024
    The Hub

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

    By Brittany Allen  November 8, 2024
    American Presidents

    How Woodrow Wilson’s Privileged Southern Upbringing Influenced His Love Life

    By Christopher Cox  November 8, 2024
    Poets

    “A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets

    By Dai George  November 7, 2024
    Musicians

    How a Young Michael Stipe Found Creative Camaraderie in Art School

    Peter Ames Carlin on the R.E.M. Frontman’s Days Studying Painting, Drawing and Photography at the University of Georgia

    By Peter Ames Carlin  November 5, 2024
    Philosophy

    Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

    By Emily Herring  October 29, 2024
    The Hub

    Gary Indiana, iconoclast and author, has died.

    By Brittany Allen  October 24, 2024
    Gaza

    Fighting Words:
    A Tribute to Refaat Alareer

    By Yousef Aljamal and Rawan Yaghi  October 24, 2024
    The Hub

    On the enduring popularity—and appropriation—of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

    By Brittany Allen  October 22, 2024
    Gaza

    Somaia Abu Nada Remembers Her Slain Sister, Heba Abu Nada, Palestinian Poet and Novelist

    By Somaia Abunada  October 21, 2024
    Biography

    Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

    By Iris Jamahl Dunkle  October 17, 2024
    Correspondence

    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 2024
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