• Biography

    The Hub

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

     
    By Brittany Allen  May 7, 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?

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 18, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 5, 2025
    Comics

    How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art

    By Dan Nadel  April 15, 2025
    Poets

    An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

    By Heather Swan  April 14, 2025
    Joan Didion

    Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

    By Evelyn McDonnell  April 7, 2025
    Anniversaries

    On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at 100

    Eleanor Lanahan Reflects on the Literary Legacy of a Timeless American Novel

    By Eleanor Lanahan  April 7, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    Basketball

    From Child Prodigy to King of the Court: How Luka Dončić Became a Basketball Icon

    By Tim MacMahon  March 27, 2025
    Women's Rights

    Inside the Life and Struggle of Victorian-Era Women’s Rights Activist Annie Besant

    By Michael Meyer  March 14, 2025
    The Writing Life

    What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

    Will Rees on the Shared Characteristics Between Health Anxiety and the Writer’s Calling

    By Will Rees  March 12, 2025
    Singer Songwriters

    “For Your Own Damn Good.” How Alanis Morissette Gave a Voice to Her Fans’ Struggles

    By Megan Volpert  March 10, 2025
    craft advice

    Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

    By Vanda Krefft  March 10, 2025
    On Poetry

    “Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism

    By Spencer Reece  March 6, 2025
    Legends

    Dear Jimi Hendrix: A Letter, in Gratitude, From Jeffery Renard Allen

    “Know that I carry you everywhere, that you more than anyone on this planet have shaped me as a writer.”

    By Jeffery Renard Allen  March 5, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Politics

    The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

    By Michael Hiltzik  February 26, 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
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