• Biography

    Literary History

    Literary Friends to Enemies: Why Graham Greene Hated Anthony Burgess

    Michael Mewshaw on the Animosity Between Two Giants of 20th-Century British Literature

     
    By Michael Mewshaw  June 9, 2023
    Lit Hub Radio

    Chad Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World

    By Keen On  June 7, 2023
    Read Smart

    Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

    By Read Smart  June 6, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

    By History of Literature  June 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard

    By Lucy Scholes  June 2, 2023
    Queer Literature

    The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

    By Cat Sebastian  June 1, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Film

    From the Ashes of Failure: On Cary Grant, Crop Dusters, and Character Arcs

    By Meg Shaffer  June 1, 2023
    The Hub

    The world pays respect to Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana’s late author-playwright.

    By Janet Manley  May 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

    By Keen On  May 31, 2023
    What to Watch

    Parting Glances: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

    His Debut Was One of the Best Independent Films of the 1980s. He Died Four Years Later.

    By Paul Morton  June 8, 2023
    Chefs

    From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

    By Laura Tillman  May 30, 2023
    Queer History

    Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

    By Amelia Possanza  May 30, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 30, 2023
    Journalism

    From Rarefied to Beloved: The Path from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion

    Brooke Kroeger Traces the Rise of Journalism's Star Female Reporters

    By Brooke Kroeger  May 25, 2023
    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    Literary Legends

    The Time Arthur Conan Doyle Got Pranked So Hard He Claimed Fairies Exist

    By Katie Spalding  May 18, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    On the Black and White Paroxysms of Augustine Gleizes, Celebrity Patient

    By Emily Wells  May 16, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

    Elizabeth Winkler Argues the Mystery Behind the God of Iambic Thunder Is Part of the Thrill

    By Elizabeth Winkler  May 15, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

    By Sam Leith  May 12, 2023
    Close Readings

    The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River

    By John N. Maclean  May 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 10, 2023
    Catholicism

    Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

    Nick Ripatrazone on the Poetic Aspirations of American Presidents

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
    The History of Literature

    How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

    By History of Literature  May 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans on Tony Hsieh and Silicon Valley’s Happiness Myth

    By Keen On  May 5, 2023
    Journalism

    On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

    By David Chrisinger  May 30, 2023
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