• Features

    Father's Day

    Red Sox Great Luis Tiant on Reuniting with His Father After 14 Years

    By Luis Tiant  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Remembering My Father, Jacques Lacan

    By Sibylle Lacan  June 14, 2019
    Parenting and Writing

    Writing During Naptime, a Parent’s Practice

    By Katie Gutierrez  June 14, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Love Island, Ocean Vuong, and L.A. Noir

    By Literary Hub  June 14, 2019
    Founding Fathers

    Noah Feldman on What James Madison Would Think of Contemporary America

    By Keen On  June 14, 2019
    War

    On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story’s “Gone Elsewhere”

    By Elliot Ackerman  June 13, 2019
    Childhood

    Sex, Violence, and Jerry Lewis: Aleksandar Hemon on the Preoccupations of His 10-Year-Old Self

    By Aleksandar Hemon  June 13, 2019
    Xenophobia

    How the West is Destroying Itself Through Its Fear of Migrants

    By Suketu Mehta  June 13, 2019
    Literary History

    What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

    By Lance Richardson  June 13, 2019
    Art History

    In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

    By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake  June 13, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Podcasting Pro-Tips and Jonny Diamond on Creating Lit Hub Radio

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 13, 2019
    Conspiracy theories

    Anna Merlan on Fake News and Conspiracy Theories

    By The Maris Review  June 13, 2019
    Art History

    Why France Bizot Uses Books as the Canvas for Her Art

    By Sarah Moroz  June 13, 2019
    Gifts

    10 Books to Give to Dads Who Don’t Read*

    By Emily Temple  June 13, 2019
    Summer reading

    Literary Disco’s Summer
    Reading 2k19!

    By Literary Disco  June 13, 2019
    Research

    On the Fine Art of Researching For Fiction  

    By Jake Wolff  June 12, 2019
    Animals

    How to Eulogize an Animal

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 12, 2019
    News and Culture

    Jim DeRogatis: Consuming the Art of a Predator is Always a Moral Choice

    By Jim DeRogatis  June 12, 2019
    Summer

    The Swimming Pool: Fascist Blue Rectangle or Immersive Democratic Space?

    By Ellena Savage  June 12, 2019
    Police Power

    The Traffic Stop: One of the Great Abuses of Police Power in Contemporary Life

    By Dan Albert  June 12, 2019
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Kathryn Scanlan on the Origins of Aug 9—Fog

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 12, 2019
    little boy in the big city

    City Lights: A Young Cree Boy Journeys to Edmonton

    By Darrel J. McLeod  June 12, 2019
    Paris

    Inside the Great Bookstores of Paris

    By Nichole Robertson  June 12, 2019
    Literary Lists

    Five Books with Complex and Credible Child Narrators

    By Michelle Sacks  June 12, 2019
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