What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

Henry Lien on Self-Esteem, "My Neighbor Totoro," and Defying Box-Office Tropes

By Henry Lien | March 10, 2025

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Vanda Krefft Offers Some Tips to Help Those Who Are Struggling To Find Primary Sources

By Vanda Krefft | March 10, 2025

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

Scott Spillman on the Scholarship and Intellectual Legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and Other Academics

By Scott Spillman | March 10, 2025

Sarah Gerard on Putting a Life on the Page

Sarah Gerard on Putting a Life on the Page

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 10, 2025

Sari Botton on Hard-Won Wisdom

Sari Botton on Hard-Won Wisdom

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | March 10, 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Amazon, Bookstores, and Villains

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Amazon, Bookstores, and Villains

Featuring Brad Johnson, Emily Temple, James Folta, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | March 7, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life

By Essex Hemphill | March 7, 2025

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

By Rebecca Worby | March 7, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | March 7, 2025

What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

Jennifer Lucy Allan on the Millennia-Long Relationship Between Humans and Hands-On Creation

By Jennifer Lucy Allan | March 7, 2025

Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

Nick Thorpe Explores the Intersections of Geography and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

By Nick Thorpe | March 7, 2025

Jonathan Tarleton on the Limits of Research—and Making Peace with What You Don’t Know

Jonathan Tarleton on the Limits of Research—and Making Peace with What You Don’t Know

Against Turning Every Page

By Jonathan Tarleton | March 7, 2025

“Tamarack Fire,” a Poem by Rachel Richardson

“Tamarack Fire,” a Poem by Rachel Richardson

From the Collection “Smother”

By Rachel Richardson | March 7, 2025

Margaret Atwood on Victoria Amelina, Who Recorded the Lives of Ukrainian Women Under War

Margaret Atwood on Victoria Amelina, Who Recorded the Lives of Ukrainian Women Under War

Remembering an Award-Winning Writer Who Sacrificed Her Life For Justice

By Margaret Atwood | March 6, 2025

Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work of Early 20th-Century Science Fiction

Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work of Early 20th-Century Science Fiction

Rereading “The Hampdenshire Wonder”

By Ted Chiang | March 6, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This is one for the introverts—the wary and the peevish, the uncertain of their looks, taste, talent and class status.”

By Book Marks | March 6, 2025

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