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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

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

featuring a bookseller roundtable, John Mutter of Shelf Awareness, and more poetry!

By Drew Broussard | April 25, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

featuring a bookseller roundtable, John Mutter of Shelf Awareness, and more poetry!

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 25, 2025

From Lagos to Calgary the Resource Curse Condemns Nations to Corruption and Autocracy

From Lagos to Calgary the Resource Curse Condemns Nations to Corruption and Autocracy

Don Gillmor Explores the Economic, Political and Environmental Impact of Our Addiction to Oil

By Don Gillmor | April 25, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Joan Didion, Marie-Helene Bertino, Emily Henry, and More

By Book Marks | April 25, 2025

Nanny As Nuisance: How Caregivers Disrupt the Fiction of the Nuclear Family

Nanny As Nuisance: How Caregivers Disrupt the Fiction of the Nuclear Family

Hannah Zeavin Explores the Class, Racial and Gender Dynamics of Childcare in the United States

By Hannah Zeavin | April 25, 2025

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In Praise of “Toxic” Female Friendships

By Ginny Hogan | April 25, 2025

Casey Johnston on Writing the Body

By Casey Johnston | April 25, 2025

What Community Means as a Queer Black Writer

By Doug Jones | April 25, 2025

<em>Behind the Mic</em> on Recent Award-Winning Audiobooks

Behind the Mic on Recent Award-Winning Audiobooks

worth your listening time

By Behind the Mic | April 25, 2025

Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Steven W. Thrasher Remembers One of the World’s First AIDS Doctors

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 24, 2025

“The Question Project.” On John Dunton and the World’s First Advice Column

“The Question Project.” On John Dunton and the World’s First Advice Column

Mary Beth Norton Explores the 17th-Century English Origins of a Major Cultural Phenomenon

By Mary Beth Norton | April 24, 2025

Matthew Specktor Remembers His Mother as a Young Woman Struggling to Find Her Place in Los Angeles

Matthew Specktor Remembers His Mother as a Young Woman Struggling to Find Her Place in Los Angeles

“All of this suggests not a person who’s simply afraid to be late, but rather one who is running: who remains, always, in flight.”

By Matthew Specktor | April 24, 2025

How the Rattlesnake Almost Became an Emblem of a Nascent America

How the Rattlesnake Almost Became an Emblem of a Nascent America

Stephen S. Hall on the Centuries-Long Historical Evolution of a Serpentine Symbol

By Stephen S. Hall | April 24, 2025

Art and Craft: An Illustrated Conversation Between Lena Moses-Schmitt and Martha Park

Art and Craft: An Illustrated Conversation Between Lena Moses-Schmitt and Martha Park

From the Authors of “True Mistakes” and “World Without End”

By Literary Hub | April 24, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Why do we need to see writers (or anyone) at their most open and despairing to be convinced that they are also human?”

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