• Features

    World War II

    Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

    By Serhii Plokhy  November 20, 2019
    Movies

    Hollywood’s Black Musicals: A Tale of Obscurity, Innovation, and…The Wiz

    By Jeanine Basinger  November 20, 2019
    Awards

    Congratulations to National Book Foundation Lifetime Honoree Edmund White

    By Literary Hub  November 20, 2019
    Adolescence

    Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

    By Jaquira Díaz  November 20, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    Meditations

    In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe
    in an Oak Tree

    By Jung Young Moon  November 20, 2019
    Inequality

    Malcolm Garcia Documents the Lives of America’s Have-Nots

    By Dale Maharidge  November 20, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Fiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 20, 2019
    The House of SpeakEasy

    The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: Failing Up

    By The SpeakEasy Podcast   November 20, 2019
    Otherppl

    Leland Cheuk on Writing Through Trauma

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 20, 2019
    Influences

    On the Books That Most Influenced the Great David Bowie

    By John O'Connell  November 19, 2019
    Prison memoir

    Reading Albert Woodfox’s Solitary While Being Detained at Guantánamo

    By Literary Hub  November 19, 2019
    Mathematics

    On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

    By David Lindsay Roberts  November 19, 2019
    Debut Novels

    A Novel at the Edge of the World: In Conversation with Julia Phillips

    By Brian Gresko  November 19, 2019
    Medicine

    Blue Babies, Big Egos, and the Wild World of Early Open Heart Surgery

    By Gabriel Brownstein  November 19, 2019
    Archaeology

    What If We Called It the ‘Flax Age’ Instead of the ‘Iron Age’?

    By Kassia St. Clair  November 19, 2019
    Poetry

    “Premonition” A Poem by Honor Moore

    By Honor Moore  November 19, 2019
    Civil Rights

    The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

    By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe  November 19, 2019
    LIC Reading Series

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, and Keith Gessen

    By LIC Reading Series  November 19, 2019
    Poem

    Three Poems by Dan Poppick

    By Dan Poppick  November 19, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Helen Phillips on What Makes a Page-Turner

    By So Many Damn Books  November 19, 2019
    Parenting

    Small Wonder: The Challenge of Parenting Through Climate Collapse

    By Eiren Caffall  November 18, 2019
    On Race

    The American Tradition of Anti-Black Vigilantism

    By Darryl Pinckney  November 18, 2019
    Art

    Robert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber

    By Robert Polito  November 18, 2019
    American Politics

    How Donald Trump’s Narcissism Masks His Extreme Insecurity

    By Jerrold Post  November 18, 2019
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