• Features

    American History

    Discovering America’s Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

    By Darren Dochuk  June 17, 2019
    Criticism

    The Hero We Need: Keanu Reeves is Demolishing All Our Dumb Stereotypes

    By Marjorie Liu  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other

    By Dean Kuipers  June 14, 2019
    Harry Potter

    On Bringing the World of Harry Potter to Life in… Florida

    By Stephen M. Silverman  June 14, 2019
    Bloomsday

    Fighting to Save the Real-Life Pharmacy from James Joyce’s Ulysses

    By Ally Findley  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    A Brief Literary History of Absolutely Terrible Dads

    By Andrew Thurman  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Red Sox Great Luis Tiant on Reuniting with His Father After 14 Years

    By Luis Tiant  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Remembering My Father, Jacques Lacan

    By Sibylle Lacan  June 14, 2019
    Parenting and Writing

    Writing During Naptime, a Parent’s Practice

    By Katie Gutierrez  June 14, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Love Island, Ocean Vuong, and L.A. Noir

    By Literary Hub  June 14, 2019
    Founding Fathers

    Noah Feldman on What James Madison Would Think of Contemporary America

    By Keen On  June 14, 2019
    War

    On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story’s “Gone Elsewhere”

    By Elliot Ackerman  June 13, 2019
    Childhood

    Sex, Violence, and Jerry Lewis: Aleksandar Hemon on the Preoccupations of His 10-Year-Old Self

    By Aleksandar Hemon  June 13, 2019
    Xenophobia

    How the West is Destroying Itself Through Its Fear of Migrants

    By Suketu Mehta  June 13, 2019
    Literary History

    What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

    By Lance Richardson  June 13, 2019
    Art History

    In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

    By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake  June 13, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Podcasting Pro-Tips and Jonny Diamond on Creating Lit Hub Radio

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 13, 2019
    Conspiracy theories

    Anna Merlan on Fake News and Conspiracy Theories

    By The Maris Review  June 13, 2019
    Art History

    Why France Bizot Uses Books as the Canvas for Her Art

    By Sarah Moroz  June 13, 2019
    Gifts

    10 Books to Give to Dads Who Don’t Read*

    By Emily Temple  June 13, 2019
    Summer reading

    Literary Disco’s Summer
    Reading 2k19!

    By Literary Disco  June 13, 2019
    Research

    On the Fine Art of Researching For Fiction  

    By Jake Wolff  June 12, 2019
    Animals

    How to Eulogize an Animal

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 12, 2019
    News and Culture

    Jim DeRogatis: Consuming the Art of a Predator is Always a Moral Choice

    By Jim DeRogatis  June 12, 2019
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