• History

    New Books Network

    Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

    By New Books Network  November 15, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

    By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
    Language

    Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

    By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
    Politics

    Life Inside Guantánamo:
    An Oral History

    By Peter Jan Honigsberg  November 13, 2019
    American History

    On the Missing History at New York’s Battleship Intrepid Museum

    By James W. Loewen  November 13, 2019
    Art History

    Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

    By John Richardson  November 13, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

    By Nicholas Buccola  November 12, 2019
    Biology

    It Turns Out There’s Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

    By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis  November 12, 2019
    Medieval History

    Spanking, Signing, Reading:
    On the Medieval Use of Hands

    By Jack Hartnell  November 12, 2019
    Abortion Rights

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

    By Jeffrey Rosen  November 11, 2019
    Impeachment

    The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

    By Liesl Schillinger  November 8, 2019
    Berlin Wall

    Reading Beyond the Wall: 7 Acclaimed Books About and From East Germany

    By Olivia Giovetti  November 8, 2019
    Berlin Wall

    Toppled: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

    By Paul Vidich  November 8, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    How Lou Sullivan’s Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

    By Callum Angus  November 8, 2019
    American History

    On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission

    By Erica Armstrong Dunbar  November 8, 2019
    Feminism

    Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

    By Nathalia Holt  November 8, 2019
    Mental Illness

    The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

    By Susannah Cahalan  November 7, 2019
    Architecture

    On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

    By Paul Hendrickson  November 6, 2019
    Activism

    What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

    By Franny Nudelman  November 6, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

    By Mo Rocca  November 6, 2019
    European History

    The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

    By Brendan Simms  November 5, 2019
    Abortion

    Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

    By Lindy West  November 5, 2019
    American History

    How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

    By Sherrod Brown  November 5, 2019
    Stephen Crane

    A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

    By Tobias Carroll  November 1, 2019
    Cookbooks

    Cookbooks Are So Much More Than Recipes and Photographs

    By Joshua Raff  November 1, 2019
    Page 131 of 158

    • We Need Your Help:

    Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

    Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.