• Features

    Otherppl

    Tim O’Brien: ‘I Despise Absolutism’

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 11, 2019
    Literary Disco

    Literary Disco Picks Their Favorite Books of the Decade

    By Literary Disco  December 11, 2019
    Jazz

    On the Sacred Bard of the 1960s Chicago Jazz Scene

    By Thulani Davis  December 11, 2019
    Jane Austen

    Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

    By Hilary Davidson  December 10, 2019
    Literary Long Weekends

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Chicago

    By Lynn Haller  December 10, 2019
    Drugs

    The Hypocrisy of Big Business’ Relationship to Cannabis

    By Lauren Michele Jackson  December 10, 2019
    Philosophy

    Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2019
    The Cold War

    How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

    By Paul Scraton  December 10, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 10, 2019
    Black Women's Writing

    What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

    By Gabrielle Hickmon  December 10, 2019
    Storybound

    Lidia Yuknavitch Reads Her Short Story “Street Walker”

    By Storybound   December 10, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

    By LIC Reading Series  December 10, 2019
    Brexit

    Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between
    Punk and Brexit

    By Fintan O'Toole  December 9, 2019
    Diaries

    From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
    Daily Life, c. 1979

    By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of
    The Prettiest Star

    By Luke Bird  December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Astronomy

    How Tycho Brahe Discovered a New Star with a Piece of String

    By L. S. Fauber  December 9, 2019
    Art History

    95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,
    and Bathroom Stalls

    By Jodie Noel Vinson  December 9, 2019
    Emergence Magazine

    Richard Powers and Forrest Gander Radically Reimagine What a Novel Can Be

    By Emergence Magazine  December 9, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male

    By Nadeem Zaman  December 9, 2019
    First Draft

    Deborah Levy on Playing With Dimensions of Time

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 9, 2019
    Criticism

    Ophelia and After: Inventing the
    Lonely Literary Woman

    By Cleo Qian  December 6, 2019
    1960s

    What Happened to Rock and Roll
    After Altamont?

    By Buzz Poole  December 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn’t Stop

    By Bohumil Hrabal  December 6, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

    By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
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