How the Great Lorraine Hansberry Tried To Make Sense of it All

How the Great Lorraine Hansberry Tried To Make Sense of it All

On an Important American Writer, About Whom We Know Far Too Little

By Imani Perry | September 18, 2018

How to Tour the Most Bookish Island in the World

How to Tour the Most Bookish Island in the World

Veronica Esposito Takes a Literary Holiday in Iceland

By Veronica Esposito | September 18, 2018

Lit Hub's Fall 2018 Nonfiction Preview: History & Biography

Lit Hub's Fall 2018 Nonfiction Preview: History & Biography

Read Up on Sylvia Plath, Myers-Briggs, and the Real Lolita

By Emily Temple | September 18, 2018

The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic

The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic

Roman Muradov on Designing for Norah Lange’s People in the Room

By Roman Muradov | September 18, 2018

The Fall of Men Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

The Fall of Men Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

On Kavanaugh, Ghomeshi, and Who Gets to Tell the Story

By Rebecca Solnit | September 17, 2018

Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2018

Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | September 17, 2018

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time

By Philip Metres | September 17, 2018

At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf | September 17, 2018

Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

By Albert Samaha | September 17, 2018

Don't Write a Book About Cancer, and Other Advice

Don't Write a Book About Cancer, and Other Advice

Shirley Barrett on Receiving a Cancer Diagnosis After Writing About It

By Shirley Barrett | September 17, 2018

Danez Smith:

Danez Smith: "Oh I want to eat this poem."

From the Introduction to Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe

By Danez Smith | September 17, 2018

Acting While Black in the Civil Rights Era

Acting While Black in the Civil Rights Era

On the Challenges Facing Black TV Actors in the 1960s

By Ann duCille | September 17, 2018

Lit Hub Weekly: September 10 - 14, 2018

Lit Hub Weekly: September 10 - 14, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | September 15, 2018

Here's the All-Female Shortlist for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award

Here's the All-Female Shortlist for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award

Honoring the best unpublished short stories in the UK

By Emily Temple | September 14, 2018

Lit Hub Daily: September 14, 2018

Lit Hub Daily: September 14, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | September 14, 2018

Why Literature Loves Lists

Why Literature Loves Lists

From Rabelais to Didion, an Incomplete List of Listmakers

By Brian Dillon | September 14, 2018

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