• Biography

    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   April 8, 2021
    Linguistics

    Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

    By Damien Bador  April 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

    By Walker Caplan  April 7, 2021
    Literary History

    Translating Brodsky: On the Undeniable Legacy of George L. Kline

    By Cynthia L. Haven  April 5, 2021
    Book Dreams

    How to Write a Woman Back Into History

    By Book Dreams  April 2, 2021
    The Hub

    The Cuomo administration has finally released information about his bizarre book deal.

    By Walker Caplan  April 1, 2021
    Letters

    Inside the Long Friendship of James Merrill and
    Elizabeth Bishop

    By James Merrill  April 1, 2021
    Baseball

    How Jackie Robinson Paved the Way for the Undersung
    Larry Doby

    By Luke Epplin  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Memoir

    7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

    By Whitney Otto  March 31, 2021
    Black History

    Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
    Harriet Tubman

    By Dorothy Wickenden  March 31, 2021
    American History

    A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

    By Jan Jarboe Russell  March 30, 2021
    Public Intellectuals

    A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
    Edward Said

    By Timothy Brennan  March 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    Nature Writing

    On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

    By David Quammen  March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

    By Walker Caplan  March 24, 2021
    Women's History

    Women of the New Frontier: On the Trailblazers Who Reimagined Television

    By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  March 24, 2021
    News and Culture

    Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

    By David Thomson  March 24, 2021
    Artists

    Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

    By Alexander Nemerov  March 23, 2021
    Open Letters

    Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

    By Shaun Usher  March 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 22, 2021
    Crime

    Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was
    Charles Ponzi?

    By Dan Davies  March 22, 2021
    Page 30 of 47

    • We Need Your Help:

    Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

    Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.