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    Ukraine

    A Million Sour Cherry Orchards: Olia Hercules on Remembering the Ghosts of Ukraine

    The Author of "Strong Roots" Paints a Portrait of Her Ancestral Land in the Wake of Russia's Invasion

     
    By Olia Hercules  August 15, 2025
    Science

    How We Can Improve Our Lives by Going Outside

    By Marc Berman  August 15, 2025
    News and Culture

    Secrecy, Leverage, and Power: The Art World’s Economy of Truth

    By Orlando Whitfield  August 15, 2025
    Addiction

    Carole Hinojosa on Motherhood in the Face of Addiction

    By Carole Hinojosa  August 15, 2025
    Poetry

    “Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan

    By Nima Hasan  August 15, 2025
    Genocide

    How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists?

    By Steven W. Thrasher  August 14, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 14, 2025
    Exile

    Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

    By Emma Sloley  August 14, 2025
    Road Trips

    A Tour of the Private: Traversing the Physical and Memory Landscape of North America

    By Joanna Pocock  August 14, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Publishers Marketplace 101, Maris Kreizman Burns It Down, and More

    Featuring Erin Somers, Jonny Diamond, Maris Kreizman, James Folta, and Drew Broussard

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 15, 2025
    Poems

    “Blood Moon,” a Prose Poem by Anne Waldman

    By Anne Waldman  August 14, 2025
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

    By Jason Mott  August 14, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 14, 2025
    American Revolution

    Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship

    “How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

    By Matthew Redmond  August 13, 2025
    Sexuality

    How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

    By Margaret Grace Myers  August 13, 2025
    Ukraine

    “Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

    By Sam Wachman  August 13, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 13, 2025
    Mathematics

    Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

    Noah Giansiracusa on the Processes That Quantify Our Existence and the Steps We Can Take to Reclaim Our Humanity

    By Noah Giansiracusa  August 12, 2025
    Literary History

    On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

    By Tim Queeney  August 12, 2025
    Craft and Criticism

    How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process

    By Nick Fuller Googins  August 12, 2025
    Photography

    Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic Teenagers in Their Bedrooms Thirty Years Later

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

    The Author of “Fonseca” on Penelope Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee, and Authorial Happenstance

    By Jessica Francis Kane  August 12, 2025
    In Conversation

    Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 12, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  August 12, 2025
    Fatherhood

    “My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black Fatherhood

    By Michael Thomas  August 14, 2025
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