• Features

    Nazi Germany

    Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

    By Géraldine Schwarz  September 21, 2020
    Poetry

    The Poet Who Had No Time
    for Tragedy

    By Dan Beachy-Quick  September 21, 2020
    Criticism

    The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

    By Kerry Greenwood  September 21, 2020
    In Translation

    In Vigdis Hjorth’s Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

    By Charlotte Barslund  September 21, 2020
    Bookable

    Susan Burton on Saying the Thing She Was Most
    Scared to Say

    By Bookable   September 21, 2020
    Poetry

    “Guilt.”

    By Victoria Chang  September 21, 2020
    First Draft

    Peter Geye on the Concept of Longing in Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 21, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On Enheduanna, the First Poet to Ascribe Her Own Name to Her Works

    By History of Literature  September 21, 2020
    Keen On

    Is America Due for a Reboot?

    By Keen On  September 21, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: On the Fight to Save the Karuk Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 21, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    When the Dead Come Calling by Helen Sedgwick, Read by Julie Maisey

    By Behind the Mic   September 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Moral (and Financial) Hazards of Charging the Sick for Health Care

    By New Books Network  September 21, 2020
    Theater

    Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

    By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Ayad Akhtar on Why Literature Isn’t Just a ‘Bleeding-Heart Liberal’ Preoccupation

    By The Literary Life  September 18, 2020
    Nature

    On Land Ethics and One of the Last Heaths in Northern Europe

    By Robert Michael Pyle  September 18, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Moving Through Books and Books That Move Us

    By Caryl Pagel  September 18, 2020
    Democracy

    Can America’s Governors Save Our System of Democracy?

    By Saladin Ambar  September 18, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Nice White Parents, The Princess Bride LIVE, and Samantha Crain

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Energy

    ‘We’re Looking at a New Cold War’: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

    By Bill Cohan  September 18, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Garnette Cadogan on What We’re Missing Without Public Space

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

    By New Books Network  September 18, 2020
    Teaching

    On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Love and Romance

    Let’s Rethink How We Talk About Love, Intimacy, and the Absence of Desire

    By Angela Chen  September 18, 2020
    Keen On

    Following the Dirty Money That Floods the Global Economy

    By Keen On  September 18, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Intimations by Zadie Smith, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   September 18, 2020
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