• Features

    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Christmases

    By So Many Damn Books  December 18, 2019
    Shakespeare

    High Comedy and Misdemeanors:
    The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of Impeachment

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 17, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

    By Ben Orlin  December 17, 2019
    Anthropology

    Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

    By Guy Crosby  December 17, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    River Nomads, Liveaboards, Canal-Dwellers and Other People of the Water

    By Laura Trethewey  December 17, 2019
    #MeToo

    A Season of Books Takes Stock
    of #MeToo

    By Kaylen Ralph  December 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

    By Tiziana de Rogatis  December 17, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 17, 2019
    Ancient History

    On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  December 17, 2019
    Tributes

    Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Mira Jacob  December 17, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman

    By LIC Reading Series  December 17, 2019
    Storybound

    Matt Gallagher Reads His Short Story “Know Your Enemy: Celebrating 50 Years of the Forever War”

    By Storybound   December 17, 2019
    Film

    Here is Werner Herzog’s Eerie Prose Script for Nosferatu the Vampyre

    By Werner Herzog  December 16, 2019
    American History

    Bringing Hitler’s Hidden Army to Justice

    By Debbie Cenziper  December 16, 2019
    Criticism

    For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2019
    American History

    Meet a Bad Man Who Became
    a Truly Great Spy

    By Owen Matthews  December 16, 2019
    Diaries

    Scattering a Mother’s Ashes: On Grief, Intimacy, and Renewal

    By William Pierce  December 16, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    The Seeds of Ancestors: A Day at Soul Fire Farm

    By Emergence Magazine  December 16, 2019
    Medieval History

    Finding a Beautiful Escape in Illuminated Manuscripts

    By Christopher de Hamel  December 16, 2019
    Sun Valley

    Alexandra Fuller: Memories of an African Childhood

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  December 16, 2019
    First Draft

    David Quammen on Why Darwin Was Wrong About Evolution

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 16, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

    By But That's Another Story  December 16, 2019
    Cookbooks

    The New Edition of The Joy of Cooking
    is a Family Affair

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 13, 2019
    Anthropocene

    Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets

    By Christopher Schaberg  December 13, 2019
    Sex

    Hosting an Orgy? This 1970s Cookbook Has You Covered

    By Lizzy Saxe  December 13, 2019
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