• History

    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
    Animals

    Do We Care Enough About Animals to Save Them From Extinction?

    By Jane Rawson  August 13, 2019
    Literary Scams

    We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 13, 2019
    Weather

    A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

    By Lyall Watson  August 13, 2019
    Encyclopedias

    The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

    By David Carlin  August 13, 2019
    Linguistics

    On the Great Old White Guy Vocal Fry Panic of 2013

    By Amanda Montell  August 12, 2019
    Counterculture

    Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

    By Erik Davis  August 12, 2019
    Sex Poems

    On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

    By Lauren Cocking  August 9, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual

    By Caitlin Horrocks  August 9, 2019
    Reading Lists

    5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

    By Brandon Shimoda  August 8, 2019
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