• Biography

    Music history

    How Little Richard Brought Black and Queer Culture to American Airwaves

    Jon Savage on the Emergence of a New and Revolutionary Form of Rock and Roll in the 1950s

     
    By Jon Savage  February 21, 2025
    Philosophy

    What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

    By Adam Plunkett  February 18, 2025
    Literary History

    An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

    By Megan Marshall  February 12, 2025
    Remembrances

    “This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

    By Paul Morton  February 7, 2025
    The Hub

    How librarians saved the day in World War II.

    By Brittany Allen  February 6, 2025
    Literary Friendships

    A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

    By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Want to win Leonard Cohen’s “magic writing cap?”

    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
    Biography

    How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

    By Ruth Franklin  January 29, 2025
    Menopause

    Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

    By Deborah Williams  January 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore.

    A Black History month reflection.

    By Brittany Allen  February 18, 2025
    Music history

    “I Immediately Began to Weep.” How “Both Sides Now” Made Joni Mitchell a Superstar

    By Henry Alford  January 21, 2025
    Short Stories

    Chasing Mystery Through Fiction:
    On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  January 20, 2025
    The Hub

    On the immortality of David Lynch.

    By Brittany Allen  January 17, 2025
    The Hub

    You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri’s first drafts at the New York Public Library.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    On Race

    How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

    By Mary Frances Phillips  January 10, 2025
    Activism

    The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

    By Julie Phillips  January 3, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Music history

    A Musical Divorce: How Money Problems and a Bad Manager Tore the Beatles Apart

    Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair on the Protracted End of a Band That Transformed Rock and Roll Forever

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2024
    Underreported

    An annotated list of things Raymond Chandler hated recently sold for $2000 at auction.

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    Doctors

    How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

    By Lydia Reeder  December 9, 2024
    Book Bans

    Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025

    By Brittany Allen  December 4, 2024
    New York City

    “Small But Unforgettable Moments.” What E.B. White Loved About New York City

    Martha White Remembers Her Grandfather’s Lifelong Relationship With the Big Apple

    By Martha White  November 25, 2024
    Divorce

    Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy

    By Kim Young  November 21, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
    Literary Icons

    A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

    By Constance Roisin  January 24, 2025
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