Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 25, 2024

Their Cold, Dead Hands: Is the Only Solution to America’s Gun Problem at the Local Level?

Their Cold, Dead Hands: Is the Only Solution to America’s Gun Problem at the Local Level?

Alex Trimble Young on the Ever Shifting Political Realities Surrounding Gun Violence

By Alex Trimble Young | October 25, 2024

The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

How Do We Redress the Violent Legacy of the Second Amendment?

By Literary Hub | October 25, 2024

10 Best Books on Guns in America

10 Best Books on Guns in America

Featuring Andrew C. McKevitt, Charles E. Cobb Jr, Gary Younge, and More

By Catherine Habgood | October 25, 2024

Big Lies Need Even Bigger Fact Checking

Big Lies Need Even Bigger Fact Checking

Maris Kreizman on What We Really Need to Do to Combat All the Political Lying

By Maris Kreizman | October 24, 2024

What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public

What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public

Bill Adair Considers the Corrosive Effects of Deliberate Deception on American Democracy

By Bill Adair | October 23, 2024

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Jason Reynolds on Subverting Masculinity

By Talk Easy | October 23, 2024

On the enduring popularity—and appropriation—of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

By Brittany Allen | October 22, 2024

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

By Liz Jackson | October 22, 2024

Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”

Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”

“The literary mind cannot be isolationist.”

By Elif Shafak | October 22, 2024

Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History

Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History

Cundill Prize Finalist Dylan C. Penningroth Recommends Patricia J. Williams, Laura F. Edwards, Charles M. Payne and More

By Dylan C. Penningroth | October 21, 2024

Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

A Spooky Season Spectacular

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 18, 2024

The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System

The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System

From the Opioid Crisis to the Cost of Insulin, What the Bottom Line Has Done to Our Lives

By Literary Hub | October 18, 2024

We Can’t Rely on Drug Companies to Keep Insulin Prices Low

We Can’t Rely on Drug Companies to Keep Insulin Prices Low

Maris Kreizman on Living at the Whim of Corporate Pharmaceuticals

By Maris Kreizman | October 18, 2024

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

Marian Crotty Shares How Her Queer Fiction Was Shaped by a Research Trip to South Dakota

By Marian Crotty | October 17, 2024

Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

The Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America's Hegemonic Foreign Policy

By Noam Chomsky | October 16, 2024

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