• Biography

    Excerpts

    The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

    By Barney Rosset  October 13, 2016
    Essay

    More Big Literary Biographies of Women, Please

    By Lisa Levy  September 28, 2016
    Biography

    Shirley Jackson Wasn’t Actually a Witch

    By Ruth Franklin  September 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Young Rilke Moved to the Big City and Met Rodin

    By Rachel Corbett  September 23, 2016
    Biography

    One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

    By Charles Arrowsmith  September 14, 2016
    Biography

    On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

    By Richard Cohen  September 12, 2016
    Excerpts

    Swimming in the Sink

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

    By Ilan Stavans  September 2, 2016
    Biography

    Dispatches From A Punk Tour of the Balkans

    By Franz Nicolay  September 2, 2016
    Excerpts

    Slow Days, Fast Company

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 29, 2016
    Excerpts

    Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

    By Fredrik Sjöberg  August 29, 2016
    Excerpts

    Islamophobia in the Trial of Adnan Syed

    By Rabia Chaudry  August 24, 2016
    Biography

    The Woman Who Launched a Newspaper During WWII

    By Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen  August 24, 2016
    Excerpts

    Svetlana Alexievich Grapples with Putin’s Russia

    By Svetlana Alexievich  August 22, 2016
    Profile

    When a Descendent of Witch Hunters Writes a Novel About Salem

    By Matthew Daddona  August 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 3, 2016
    Excerpts

    Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama

    By Nick Foster  July 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    Dog Gone

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    Living With A Dead Language

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 15, 2016
    Excerpts

    Falling: A Daughter, A Father, and a Journey Back

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 13, 2016
    Biography

    The Origins of Diane Arbus’s Most Famous Photograph

    By Arthur Lubow  June 9, 2016
    Excerpts

    Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison

    By Mikita Brottman  June 6, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Night Cassius Clay Beat Sonny Liston

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

    By Ana Castillo  May 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Vanishing Velazquez

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 29, 2016
    Page 42 of 44

    • Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member: Because Books Matter

    For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for a donation, you’ll get an ad-free reading experience, exclusive editors’ picks, book giveaways, and our coveted Joan Didion Lit Hub tote bag. Most importantly, you’ll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving on the internet.

    Become a member for as low as $5/month

    Dismiss without supporting Lit Hub
    x