• Features

    Shakespeare

    5 Great Island Books That Reimagine The Tempest

    By Johanna Stoberock  September 30, 2019
    European History

    How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

    By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  September 30, 2019
    Essays

    Leslie Jamison: On Weddings

    By Leslie Jamison  September 27, 2019
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of September

    By Emily Temple  September 27, 2019
    Literary History

    The Writer You’ve Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

    By Mark Haber  September 27, 2019
    Craft

    The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

    By Sonya Huber  September 27, 2019
    Books

    A Brief History of Personalized Bookplates

    By Princeton Architectural Press   September 27, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  September 27, 2019
    Soccer

    How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

    By Jonathan Wilson  September 27, 2019
    Celebrity

    Fatima Bhutto on Bollywood’s ‘Most Unlikely Hero’

    By Fatima Bhutto  September 27, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    Essays

    Clarice Lispector: A Woman Knows To Say No

    By Clarice Lispector  September 27, 2019
    Keen On

    Who Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping

    By Keen On  September 27, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Inside Ann Patchett’s New Novel, The Dutch House

    By The Literary Life  September 27, 2019
    #TBT

    Literary Disco Visits The Waverly Gallery

    By Literary Disco  September 27, 2019
    News and Culture

    Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

    By Mark Gozonsky  September 26, 2019
    Time

    John Berger: Some Brief Musings on Time

    By John Berger  September 26, 2019
    Pop Music

    So You Think You’re Cool? On Referencing Pop Music in Fiction

    By Robert Haller  September 26, 2019
    American Spies

    The Day I Found Out My Father Was a Spy

    By Steve Healey  September 26, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Shelly Oria on the Challenge of Anthologizing Fiction and Poetry About #MeToo

    By The Maris Review  September 26, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    What Does It Mean to Be Human? Lori Gottlieb on the Life of a Therapist

    By Just the Right Book   September 26, 2019
    Spirituality

    On Gandhi and Nonviolence as a Spiritual Virtue

    By Tridip Suhrud  September 26, 2019
    Teaching

    The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

    By Noah Cho  September 26, 2019
    Etymologies

    How the Word ‘Ghetto’ Traveled from Europe to America

    By Daniel B. Schwartz  September 26, 2019
    Young Adult

    How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

    By Dana Schwartz  September 25, 2019
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