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    Education

    In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

    Joelle Renstrom Reconsiders What Teachers Used to Dismiss as a Shortcut

     
    By Joelle Renstrom  August 28, 2025
    Wildfires

    Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

    By River Selby  August 25, 2025
    Gaza

    Surviving the Infamous Flour Massacre in Gaza

    By Ahmed Dader  August 25, 2025
    Fascism

    The Fascist History of Yoga

    By Stewart Home  August 22, 2025
    Movies

    On Drew Barrymore’s Iconic Scream
    in Scream

    By Ashley Cullins  August 20, 2025
    Gaza

    The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

    By Alaa Alqaisi  August 13, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Children's Literature

    Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss?

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  August 12, 2025
    Greek Literature

    Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet

    By Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys  August 12, 2025
    Jane Austen

    How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

    By Grace Aldridge  August 8, 2025
    Palestine

    The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

    Philip Metres Examines the Close Bonds of Occupation

    By Philip Metres  August 27, 2025
    Veterans

    Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

    By Khadijah Queen  August 6, 2025
    American Literature

    Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now

    By Devin Thomas O’Shea  August 5, 2025
    Politics

    On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

    By Meg Pillow  July 31, 2025
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of July

    High Art for High Summer

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2025
    literary criticism

    “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
    A.I.

    What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

    By Piers Gelly  July 28, 2025
    Singer Songwriters

    Neko Case on Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters as Much Today as She Ever Did

    By Neko Case  July 24, 2025
    Palestine

    On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

    Emily Van Duyne Reads Jamie Hood, Amie Souza Reilly, Zadie Smith, and Edward Said

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 24, 2025
    Bookstores

    A Refuge From Censorship: Why Independent Bookstores Will Save Us

    By Kate Broad  July 23, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce

    By Ed Simon  July 21, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Our 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025

    By Drew Broussard  July 8, 2025
    The Big List

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

    249 Books to Read Before the End of the Year

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2025
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 12, 2025
    Summer reading

    22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  May 27, 2025
    World War II

    Catastrophe Awaits:
    Nagasaki Before the Bomb

    By M.G. Sheftall  August 7, 2025
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