• History

    History

    Travels to Nowhere

    By Lit Hub Photography  January 26, 2016
    Essay

    A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

    By James Green  January 25, 2016
    Essay

    A Novel of Putin’s Russia That Got Its Writer Beaten Up

    By Will Evans  January 25, 2016
    Essay

    Are the Kids All Right?

    By Moira Weigel  January 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

    By Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman  January 21, 2016
    History

    There’s No Place For Joy in Today’s Moscow

    By Sergei Lebedev  January 20, 2016
    History

    The Story of Segregation, One Photo at a Time

    By Lit Hub Photography  January 18, 2016
    Design

    A Brief History of Book Illustration

    By Chris Russell  January 14, 2016
    Essay

    The Life and Times of the Great Rafael Chirbes

    By Valerie Miles  January 6, 2016
    Essay

    A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist

    By Samantha Hunt  January 4, 2016
    Essay

    The Unheralded Monk Who Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing

    By Andrew Pettegree  December 28, 2015
    Feature

    A Brief History of the Hit Christmas Song

    By Ben Yagoda  December 21, 2015
    History

    A Brief, Wondrous History of Arabic Literature

    By Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey  December 11, 2015
    Criticism

    Algeria After Camus

    By Namara Smith  December 8, 2015
    Essay

    Bette Howland: The Tale of a Forgotten Genius

    By A.N. Devers  December 4, 2015
    Essay

    The Joy of Writing about The Joy of Painting

    By Toby Fehily  December 2, 2015
    Excerpts

    Custer’s Trials

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 2, 2015
    Essay

    Kathleen Alcott’s Ghosts of Thanksgiving

    By Kathleen Alcott  November 25, 2015
    Essay

    How Board Games Got Literary

    By Tobias Carroll  November 19, 2015
    Excerpts

    Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 19, 2015
    Essay

    How We Mourn Our Dead Pets

    By Jessica Miller  November 17, 2015
    Excerpts

    This Gulf of Fire

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 16, 2015
    Essay

    A Brief History of Religious Toleration

    By George Makari  November 13, 2015
    Essay

    Against Lousy Holocaust Novels…

    By Dara Horn  November 11, 2015
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