Features

Neuroscience

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

By Scott A. Small  July 13, 2021
Writers on Writers

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

By Jane Ciabattari  July 13, 2021
Baseball

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

By Rick White  July 13, 2021
Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

By Teddy Wayne  July 13, 2021
Humor

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

By Tahmima Anam  July 13, 2021
Motherhood

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

By Savala Nolan  July 13, 2021
Storybound

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Performs a Passage from Dear Black Girl

By Storybound   July 13, 2021
Poker

“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

By Helen Ellis  July 13, 2021
Keen On

John Hagel on the Psychology of Fear for the Future

By Keen On  July 13, 2021
Third Culture

Searching for Connection and Belonging, in Life and Fiction

By Sunjeev Sahota  July 13, 2021
Literary Disco

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

By Literary Disco  July 13, 2021
Behind the Mic

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, Edited by John Freeman, Read by Ensemble

By Behind the Mic   July 13, 2021
Freedom of Speech

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

By Richard Flanagan  July 12, 2021
Reading Lists

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

By Thora Hjörleifsdóttir, translated by Larissa Kyzer  July 12, 2021
TV

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross  July 12, 2021
Incarceration

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

By Elizabeth Greenwood  July 12, 2021
Freedom

Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

By Carrot Quinn  July 12, 2021
Family Histories

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

By Joyce Maynard  July 12, 2021
Indigenous Peoples

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

By Emil’ Keme  July 12, 2021
Keen On

How America’s Lack of Basic Support is Shortening Lives

By Keen On  July 12, 2021
Emergence Magazine

Kimberly Ruffin Shares Her Guided Practice of Walking Through the Forest

By Emergence Magazine  July 12, 2021
First Draft

Steven Pressfield on the Artist
as Warrior

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 12, 2021
The History of Literature

Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

By History of Literature  July 12, 2021
Behind the Mic

Revival Season by Monica West, Read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt

By Behind the Mic   July 12, 2021
Literary Icons

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

By Elizabeth Poliner  July 9, 2021
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