• Features

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Behold… The Best Reviewed Books of the Week!

    By Book Marks  October 8, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Wisława Szymborska on Learning to Write from Life

    By Wisława Szymborska  October 8, 2021
    Country Music

    Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

    By Kelefa Sanneh  October 8, 2021
    Language

    Defamiliarizing the Mother Tongue: On Immigration’s Impact on Learning and Losing Language

    By Julie Sedivy  October 8, 2021
    Genetics

    Why Did It Take Scientists So Long to Fully Understand Genetics and Mendel’s Laws?

    By Howard Markel  October 8, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Heyday Books

    By Corinne Segal  October 8, 2021
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Investigative Journalist Julie Brown on Exposing Jeffrey Epstein

    By The Literary Life  October 8, 2021
    Jewish History

    Community and Care: On Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting

    By Mark Oppenheimer  October 8, 2021
    Classic Novels

    The Story Behind The Snake Pit, Mary Jane Ward’s Dark Comic Masterpiece

    By Larry Lockridge  October 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

    By Keen On  October 8, 2021
    Open Source

    Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s Infectious Genius

    By Open Source  October 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Helen Russell on Having a Healthy Relationship with Sadness

    By Keen On  October 8, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

    By Manan Ahmed Asif  October 8, 2021
    New Books Network

    Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 8, 2021
    The Common

    Ricardo Wilson on the Importance of Interrogating Research

    By The Common  October 8, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Archer by Shruti Swamy, Read by Sneha Mathan

    By Behind the Mic   October 8, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History

    By Emily Temple  October 7, 2021
    Social Science

    Disgust: On the Uses and Abuses of the Most Difficult Emotion

    By Stephanie Grant  October 7, 2021
    On Racism

    Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

    By Colin Kaepernick  October 7, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Joshua Ferris Urges Writers Not to Cower on the Page

    By Literary Hub  October 7, 2021
    Open Form

    Téa Obreht on Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca’s Lesbian Feminist Hero

    By Open Form  October 7, 2021
    Hip Hop

    Why Kendrick Lamar is the Most Political Rapper in Modern-Day Pop Culture

    By Miles Marshall Lewis  October 7, 2021
    Writing Advice

    How to Write a Good Fight Scene

    By Jeff Bens  October 7, 2021
    Foraging

    The Primordial Pull of the Truffle, That “Holy of Holies”

    By Rowan Jacobsen  October 7, 2021
    Marriage

    How to Be Married, in 16 Simple and Completely F*cking Unrealistic Steps

    By Kimberly Harrington  October 7, 2021
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