• History

    Literary Legends

    Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

    By Philippe Aronson  August 28, 2019
    Ancient History

    The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

    By Anthony Everitt  August 28, 2019
    Drugs

    The Deafening Silence of a Pharmaceutical Company in the Face of the Opioid Crisis

    By John Halpern and David Blistein  August 28, 2019
    Baseball

    Teddy Roosevelt Hated Baseball

    By Ryan Swanson  August 27, 2019
    Reparations

    What Germany Can (and Can’t) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

    By Susan Neiman  August 27, 2019
    Guns

    Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

    By Chuck Augello  August 26, 2019
    Feminism

    Sady Doyle on the Man Who Insisted His Wife Was a Malevolent Fairy

    By Sady Doyle  August 26, 2019
    The Holocaust

    Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

    By Maria Tumarkin  August 26, 2019
    Immigration

    Suketu Mehta on Fighting
    Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

    By Dylan Foley  August 23, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

    By Literary Hub  August 22, 2019
    Linguistics

    The Feints and Jabs of Polari,
    Britain’s Gay Slang

    By Paul Baker  August 22, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

    By Just the Right Book   August 22, 2019
    Philosophy

    For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

    By Jonathan Rée  August 21, 2019
    Religion

    On Victor Hugo’s Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

    By Abby Walthausen  August 21, 2019
    Literary History

    Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

    By Boze Herrington  August 21, 2019
    Activism

    The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

    By Charles Postel  August 21, 2019
    Art History

    At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

    By Sue Roe  August 20, 2019
    Masters In Conversation

    Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
    Animals

    For the Love of Horses, From Girlhood to Old Age

    By Tory Bilski  August 19, 2019
    Sociology

    How, Exactly, Did We Come Up with What Counts As ‘Normal’?

    By Jonathan Mooney  August 16, 2019
    AIDS

    The Real Heroes:
    On HIV/AIDS Activists in 1980s Chicago

    By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank  August 16, 2019
    Drugs

    Plunging Into the 1970s’ Altered States of Awareness

    By Buzz Poole  August 16, 2019
    Economics

    Where Have All the Pirates Gone?

    By Peter Lehr  August 15, 2019
    WWII

    The French Village That Saved Hundreds Fleeing Nazi Persecution

    By Maggie Paxson  August 14, 2019
    Literary History

    Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

    By Roy Jacobsen  August 14, 2019
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