• Features

    Behind the Mic

    Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   November 25, 2020
    Booker Prize

    Talking to the Editor Behind Back-to-Back Booker Prizes

    By Katie Yee  November 24, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, November Edition

    By Book Marks  November 24, 2020
    Thanksgiving

    On the Extravagance of Mark Twain’s Family Dishes

    By Melissa Scholes Young  November 24, 2020
    Magazine Covers

    Bruce McCall: The Story Behind Eight New Yorker Covers

    By Bruce McCall  November 24, 2020
    Christianity

    On the Prosperity Gospel, the Soul of Money, and Proto-Capitalist Jesus

    By Frederick Kaufman  November 24, 2020
    World War II

    The Life of Carla Capponi, Nazi-Fighter of Occupied Rome

    By Victor Failmezger  November 24, 2020
    Philosophy

    How Come We Don’t Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

    By Luigi Amara  November 24, 2020
    Comfort Food

    Doughnuts or Donuts? Krispy Kreme or Dunkin’? All of the Above?

    By Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant  November 24, 2020
    Lit Hub Radio

    Erin Brockovich Wants to Talk About the Water Crisis

    By Keen On  November 24, 2020
    In Conversation

    Pamela Painter on Reading’s Pleasures—and Badly Behaved Characters

    By Margot Livesey  November 24, 2020
    Australian Literature

    Wayne Macauley on
    Gerald Murnane’s Most Memorable Book

    By Wayne Macauley  November 24, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Arnold Lobel’s Preoccupation With Solitude in Frog and Toad

    By Lit Century   November 24, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Arctic Fever and the Creation of the Hyper-Masculine Explorer

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 24, 2020
    New Books Network

    How and Why We Cut Ourselves Off from the Natural World

    By New Books Network  November 24, 2020
    Lit Hub Radio

    The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk, Read by Moira Quirk

    By Behind the Mic   November 24, 2020
    Literary History

    When Adrienne Rich Refused The National Book Award

    By Hilary Holladay  November 23, 2020
    Letters

    A Young V.S. Naipaul Writes to His Dad About Wanting to Fit in at School

    By V.S. Naipaul  November 23, 2020
    On Craft

    The Uncertainty of the Future Has Made Storytellers of Us All

    By Nancy Star  November 23, 2020
    Audiobooks

    Danger and Depth in Literary Thrillers: This Month’s Audiobook Recommendations

    By James Tate Hill  November 23, 2020
    Music history

    Like Jazz, Bowling, and Old Hollywood Hairdos?
    Thank Insects.

    By Edward D. Melillo  November 23, 2020
    The History of Literature

    What Happened to the Classic Western? It Got Better

    By History of Literature  November 23, 2020
    Keen On

    This Isn’t an Election Crisis—It’s a Crisis of Trump

    By Keen On  November 23, 2020
    Dance

    Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name

    By Ntozake Shange  November 23, 2020
    Diaries

    Writing and Parenting in the Pandemic Blur of
    Day to Day Life

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  November 23, 2020
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