• History

    Food History

    The Invention of Fettuccine Alfredo: A Love Story

    By Luca Cesari  January 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Forget Generative AI: Margaret Heffernan on Why the Future Remains Up To Us

    By Keen On  January 26, 2023
    Politics

    This Is Not Who We Are: Zachary Shore on America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue

    By Keen On  January 26, 2023
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Alina Adams and Masha Rumer on Writing History as It Happens

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Valentine Low on How the British Royal Family is Transforming Itself Into a 21st-Century Institution

    By Keen On  January 26, 2023
    Biography

    “I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

    By Robert D. Richardson  January 25, 2023
    Civil Rights

    How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

    By Dan Berger  January 25, 2023
    What to Watch

    Watching the Films of Weimar Germany to Understand Our Increasingly Fascistic Present

    By Travis Mushett  January 25, 2023
    Keen On

    George McCalman’s Illustrated Black American History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

    By Keen On  January 25, 2023
    Literary Biography

    “The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

    By Emily J. Orlando  January 24, 2023
    Archives

    Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

    By Alan Mikhail  January 23, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Jamie Figueroa: Prophecies of Possibility and a Ripening of the Next World

    By Emergence Magazine  January 23, 2023
    Keen On

    On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

    By Keen On  January 23, 2023
    What to Watch

    Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

    By Ethan Warren  January 20, 2023
    Economics

    Debunking the Coconut Myth: An Economist Breaks Down a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Cause of Poverty in Poor Countries

    By Ha-Joon Chang  January 20, 2023
    Genetics

    How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death

    By Dale Greenwalt  January 18, 2023
    Colonialism

    How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

    By Tsitsi Dangarembga  January 18, 2023
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Tom Crewe and Colm Tóibín on the Joyful History of Gay Life

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 18, 2023
    Literary History

    The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

    By Richard Bradford  January 17, 2023
    Reproductive Rights

    How It Took a Diverse Coalition to Truly Fight for Reproductive Freedom in America

    By Felicia Kornbluh  January 13, 2023
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
    Travel Writing

    Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

    By Pico Iyer  January 11, 2023
    American History

    After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

    By Jacqueline Jones  January 11, 2023
    The Virtual Book Channel

    What Does the Plight of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tell Us About Contemporary American Struggles?

    By Keen On  January 10, 2023
    Family History

    Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

    By Nicky Beer  January 9, 2023
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