• Features

    In Memoriam

    Elizabeth McCracken: Remembering Susan Kamil, Friend and Editor

    By Elizabeth McCracken  September 16, 2019
    End Times

    Can Climate Fiction Be… Hopeful?

    By Literary Hub  September 16, 2019
    Literary History

    The US Tour That Made Gertrude Stein a Household Name

    By Roy Morris, Jr.  September 16, 2019
    Genetics

    Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

    By Françoise Baylis  September 16, 2019
    Climate Change

    Marching on London with Extinction Rebellion

    By Thomas Bunstead  September 16, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On the Rare Decency of
    Susan Kamil

    By John Freeman  September 16, 2019
    Art History

    On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

    By J. Faith Almiron  September 13, 2019
    New York City

    September 10, 2001 at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World

    By Tom Roston  September 13, 2019
    Addiction

    On Attempting to Deal With Addiction Through Books

    By Chris Fleming  September 13, 2019
    Film

    What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie ‘Universal’ Status?

    By Simon Han  September 13, 2019
    Myth

    The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

    By Kassandra Montag  September 13, 2019
    Fishing

    Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

    By Literary Hub  September 13, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Jennine Capó Crucet on Her Time Among the Whites

    By The Literary Life  September 13, 2019
    Keen On

    Jeffrey A. Winters on the Rise of Oligarchic Democracy

    By Keen On  September 13, 2019
    Forgotten Classics

    11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now

    By Bob Batchelor  September 13, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin

    By Literary Hub  September 13, 2019
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

    By Jaime Fuller  September 12, 2019
    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Profiles

    The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott’s Invented World

    By Danielle Evans  September 12, 2019
    Smut I Say!

    When D.H. Lawrence’s “Unlovely” Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    WWII

    The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race

    By Richard Askwith  September 12, 2019
    Imperialism

    Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

    By Hazel V. Carby  September 12, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Weinman: Why We’ve Always Misunderstood Lolita

    By The Maris Review  September 12, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Tim Desmond: Is the World More or Less F*ucked Up Than It Used to Be?

    By Just the Right Book   September 12, 2019
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