• History

    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
    Did you know?

    The Origin Stories of 21 Indie Presses

    By Courtney Gillette  November 10, 2015
    Excerpts

    1946: The Making of the Modern World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 10, 2015
    Essay

    Reading Henry Dumas After Trayvon Martin

    By Drew Johnson  November 4, 2015
    Correspondence

    Letters to Vera

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 4, 2015
    Essay

    The Greatest (Sellout) Generation

    By Buzz Poole  November 3, 2015
    Archives

    The Smith Tapes: Lost Interviews with Rock Stars & Icons 1969-1972

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 3, 2015
    Excerpts

    Behind the Madness of the Salem Witch Hunt

    By Stacy Schiff  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of Witches

    By Jess Bergman  October 30, 2015
    Biography

    History’s People

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 21, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of Whales

    By Blair Beusman  October 16, 2015
    Whales

    There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket

    By Ben Shattuck  October 16, 2015
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