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

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

When the Only Explanation for a Powerful Woman is Dark Magic

By Sady Doyle | August 26, 2019

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

On Being Jewish in Poland After WWII

By Maria Tumarkin | August 26, 2019

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

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

The Author of This Land is Our Land in Conversation with Dylan Foley

By Dylan Foley | August 23, 2019

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

Travel from the Medieval Era and Postwar Britain to
Present-Day America

By Literary Hub | August 22, 2019

The Feints and Jabs of Polari, <br> Britain's Gay Slang

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

On a Classic Argot of Gossip and Drag

By Paul Baker | August 22, 2019

Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

The Author of The Last Pirate of New York on Just the Right Book
with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | August 22, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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

By Jonathan Rée | August 21, 2019

On Victor Hugo's Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

By Abby Walthausen | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

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

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

Charles Postel on the Temperance Crusade That Galvanized the American Women's Movement

By Charles Postel | August 21, 2019

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

On Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, and the Hothouse of Parisian Art

By Sue Roe | August 20, 2019

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

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

The Authors of Gun Island and The Forest of Enchantments in Conversation

By Literary Hub | August 20, 2019

For the Love of Horses, From Girlhood to Old Age

For the Love of Horses, From Girlhood to Old Age

Tory Bilski Recommends 5 Books for the Equine Set

By Tory Bilski | August 19, 2019

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

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

A Brief History of the Pseudoscience Behind the Myth of the "Average"

By Jonathan Mooney | August 16, 2019

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

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

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank in Conversation with Her Mom, Deborah, and the Novelist Rebecca Makkai

By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank | August 16, 2019

Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

Buzz Poole on Erik Davis’s High Weirdness

By Buzz Poole | August 16, 2019

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