• History

    Excerpts

    Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

    By Jeremiah Moss  August 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

    By Janet Todd  August 7, 2017
    Archives

    Sam Shepard on Writing, Reading, and the Promise of Eternal Love

    By Sam Shepard  August 2, 2017
    Excerpts

    Duke Ellington Really Just Wanted to Be a Writer

    By Brent Hayes Edwards  August 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    Svetlana Alexievich on Why She Does What She Does

    By Svetlana Alexievich  July 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Invention of the Rural Hipster

    By John T. Edge  July 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

    By Philippe Sands  July 11, 2017
    Design

    The American Artist Who’s Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

    By Daniel A. Gross  July 7, 2017
    Essay

    Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

    By Dave Boling  June 23, 2017
    Poets

    Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World’s First Poet?

    By Charles Halton  June 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

    By Joel Dinerstein  June 19, 2017
    Archives

    14 Curious Telegrams from (and to) Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  June 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Case of Mistaken Identity Behind Legends of the Fall

    By Jamie Harrison  June 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Story of the Philosopher-Artist of L.A.

    By Kellie Jones  May 25, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Boxer and The Professor: Friendships of the Lost Generation

    By James McGrath Morris  May 11, 2017
    Politics

    American Stories Are Refugee Stories

    By Beth Nguyen   May 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    Performing Hamlet in a Sandstorm at a Syrian Refugee Camp

    By Dominic Dromgoole  April 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Witches of Suburbia

    By Willem De Blécourt  April 14, 2017
    Did you know?

    The Notorious Legends and Dubious Stories of 10 Literary Deaths

    By Emily Temple  April 13, 2017
    Politics

    Actual Social Justice Warriors: The Women of Celtic Mythology

    By Philip Freeman  April 10, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Hysteria, Witches, and The Wandering Uterus: A Brief History

    By Terri Kapsalis  April 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    History of a Disappearance

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    Take Heart: Shakespeare’s Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

    By J.P. Romney and Rebecca Romney  March 20, 2017
    Archives

    Read a (Love) Letter From Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2017
    Did you know?

    The Doctor Who Made Addicts of the Nazis

    By Norman Ohler  March 7, 2017
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