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Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet

Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet

Jason Dove Mark on the Ways Environmental Amnesia Influences Our Perception of the Natural World

By Jason Dove Mark | July 15, 2026

One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon

One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon

Sally Ashton on the Eternal Beauty of the Lunar-Human Connection

By Sally Ashton | July 15, 2026

Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams

Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams

Oana Aristide on Learning How to Pursue Her Creative Passions

By Oana Aristide | July 15, 2026

Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides's <em>Iphigenia Among the Taurians</em>, translated by Anne Carson

Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides's Iphigenia Among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 15, 2026

Chana Joffe-Walt on The Best Tape You Can Get

Chana Joffe-Walt on The Best Tape You Can Get

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | July 15, 2026

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

Steven W. Thrasher on the Fight For Academic Freedom

By Steven W. Thrasher | July 14, 2026

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More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

By Angela Flournoy | July 14, 2026

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne | July 14, 2026

On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp

By Elizabeth H. Winthrop | July 14, 2026

Sad Love Stories Are the Best Stories: A Reading List in Praise of Messy Love

Sad Love Stories Are the Best Stories: A Reading List in Praise of Messy Love

Alicia Upano Recommends Crystal Hana Kim, Kamila Shamsie, Louise Kennedy, and More

By Alicia Upano | July 14, 2026

The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature

The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature

Nicole Blackwood Charts the Rise and Fall of a Literary Microtrend

By Nicole Blackwood | July 13, 2026

“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley

“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley

Moriel Rothman-Zecher Considers the Writer’s Dual Role as Activist and Artist

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher | July 13, 2026

When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer

When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer

Alice Mattison on the Intimacies of Reading Other People’s Letters

By Alice Mattison | July 13, 2026

Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can

Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can

Sara Lippmann: “Honor the time when you are at your most receptive and curious. Protect it with everything you’ve got.”

By Sara Lippmann | July 13, 2026

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Jack Parlett Considers the Experiences of Some of His Favorite Artists With Sobriety (Alongside His Own)

By Jack Parlett | July 13, 2026

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

“Songs gain their power from repetition, while symphonies gain theirs from transformation.”

By David Baerwald | July 10, 2026

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