On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

Maris Kreizman Wonders What Can Be Done in the Face of Trump’s Devastating NEA Cuts?

By Maris Kreizman | May 8, 2025

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession

By Padraic X. Scanlan | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

Eunji Kim on the Role of Entertainment and Infotainment in American Life

By Eunji Kim | May 7, 2025

What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

Ian Kumekawa Explores the Transformation of Global Trade Through the Objects That Power It

By Ian Kumekawa | May 6, 2025

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

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Trump’s NEA is terminating hundreds of grants in literature, theater, and the arts.

By James Folta | May 5, 2025

Why the Legal Profession Needs to Resist Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Intimidation Tactics

By Aron Solomon | May 5, 2025

From MLMs to Nuclear War:
10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2025

A brief literary history of May Day.

A brief literary history of May Day.

Happy International Worker's Day!

By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2025

Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

By Jonny Diamond | May 1, 2025

Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

Zoe Roth Puts Charlotte Beradt’s “The Third Reich of Dreams” in the Context of Our Current Reality

By Zoe Roth | April 30, 2025

Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Tobias Carroll on When Bad Fans Happen to Good Books

By Tobias Carroll | April 30, 2025

Another reason to love Pedro Pascal? He called J.K. Rowling a

Another reason to love Pedro Pascal? He called J.K. Rowling a "heinous loser."

Cheers to the only Minister of Magic we recognize.

By Brittany Allen | April 28, 2025

Uncovering the Forgotten: The Struggle For Trans History, From Nazi Germany to Today

Uncovering the Forgotten: The Struggle For Trans History, From Nazi Germany to Today

Milo Todd on Writing Historical Fiction in an Era of Alternative Facts

By Milo Todd | April 28, 2025

Science in America is Going Dark: <br>On Zoë Schlanger’s <em>The Light Eaters</em>

Science in America is Going Dark:
On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters

Gabrielle Bellot Ponders the Death of Original Thinking in a Country That’s Lost Its Way

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2025

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