• Biography

    The Hub

    Want to win Leonard Cohen’s “magic writing cap?”

     
    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
    Menopause

    Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

    By Deborah Williams  January 24, 2025
    Literary Icons

    A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

    By Constance Roisin  January 24, 2025
    Music history

    “I Immediately Began to Weep.” How “Both Sides Now” Made Joni Mitchell a Superstar

    By Henry Alford  January 21, 2025
    Short Stories

    Chasing Mystery Through Fiction:
    On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  January 20, 2025
    The Hub

    On the immortality of David Lynch.

    By Brittany Allen  January 17, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri’s first drafts at the New York Public Library.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    On Race

    How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

    By Mary Frances Phillips  January 10, 2025
    Activism

    The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

    By Julie Phillips  January 3, 2025
    Biography

    How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

    Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

    By Ruth Franklin  January 29, 2025
    Music history

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

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 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

    Brittany K. Allen Talks to the National Book Award-Winning Author About the Struggle to Come

    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
    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
    Correspondence

    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 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

    Richard Munson Considers the Founding Father’s Long-Overlooked Passion for Scientific Inquiry

    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

    By Lili Anolik  November 12, 2024
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
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