• History

    Memoir

    Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

    By Karl Geary  January 13, 2021
    World War II

    Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
    World War II

    By Richard Greene  January 13, 2021
    American History

    On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

    By James Oakes  January 13, 2021
    Reported Memoirs

    Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

    By Kenneth R. Rosen  January 13, 2021
    Wine

    Inside Algeria’s Early ‘Kingdom of Wine’

    By Owen White  January 13, 2021
    Boredom

    On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

    By Martha Cooley  January 13, 2021
    Politics

    What Joe Biden Can Learn from Machiavelli After the Capitol Raid

    By Keen On  January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    Insurrections

    American Legacy: When White Supremacist Mobs Threaten Democracy

    By David Zucchino  January 12, 2021
    On Race

    On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

    By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Medieval Invention of Travel Writing

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   January 12, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  January 11, 2021
    Patriarchy

    Bearing Witness to the Legacy of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes

    By Caelainn Hogan  January 11, 2021
    Insurrections

    From Al Qaeda to QAnon: Rebecca Solnit on the Inside Job at the Capitol

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 9, 2021
    Teaching

    How Teachers Can Foster a Space of Curiosity

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 8, 2021
    Black History

    On the Greatest Speech of Jesse
    Jackson’s Life

    By David Masciotra  January 8, 2021
    Insurrections

    A Dark Day in the Capitol: Donald Trump Calls For Insurrection

    By Liesl Schillinger  January 7, 2021
    Climate Crisis Readings

    Activists, Scientists, and Poets: Your Climate Readings for January

    By Amy Brady  January 7, 2021
    Mythology

    On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains

    By Ed Douglas  January 7, 2021
    Comics

    The Spiritual Message at the Heart of ‘Peanuts’

    By Andrew Blauner  January 7, 2021
    Keen On

    Reporting on Human Suffering in COVID Times Means Looking to the Past

    By Keen On  January 7, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Plight of Britain’s Nuclear Test Veterans

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   January 7, 2021
    Travel

    In Search of the Muslim
    Community of Ladakh

    By Medina Tenour Whiteman  January 7, 2021
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