• Biography

    The Booker Revisited

    On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

    By Lucy Scholes  April 3, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephanie Marie Thornton Imagines the Lost Words Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Visionary Daughter Mary Shelley

    By Keen On  March 27, 2023
    Muses

    When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

    By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    Environmentalism

    Daisy Hildyard on the Ancient Origins of James Lovelock, Progenitor of Gaia Theory

    By Daisy Hildyard  March 16, 2023
    In Memoriam

    “This Boy is Going to Be a Writer.” Remembering Paul La Farge’s Childhood

    By Wendy Walker  March 15, 2023
    Book Festivals

    Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Remembering Ian Falconer, children’s author and force at The New Yorker.

    By Janet Manley  March 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Craig Seligman on Doris Fish, the Rise of Drag and Why Ron DeSantis Should Dress Up as a Woman

    By Keen On  March 7, 2023
    Letters

    On the Mundane Letters of John Keats

    By Geoffrey D. Morrison  March 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael G. Long on Why Jackie Robinson’s Political Legacy is at Least as Important as His Sporting One

    By Keen On  March 6, 2023
    Exploration

    The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

    By Mensun Bound  March 3, 2023
    Queer History

    Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

    By Craig Seligman  March 3, 2023
    The Hub

    Celebrity children’s books ranked from ? to ???

    By Janet Manley  March 2, 2023
    Reading

    How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

    By William Middleton  March 1, 2023
    Reproductive Rights

    A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

    By Jennifer Wright  March 1, 2023
    Poets

    Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

    By Willard Spiegelman  February 28, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

    By Aaron J. Leonard  February 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    How a 26-Year-Old Steven Spielberg Made Jaws… and Nearly Lost His Career in the Process

    By Michael Schulman  February 24, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    James Stewart Talks Redstone Family Drama and Boardroom Backstabbing

    By Just the Right Book   February 23, 2023
    Exploration

    An Explorer Frozen in Time and a Map for the Mess of Life

    By Reid Mitenbuler  February 23, 2023
    Black History

    The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

    By Gregory Pardlo  February 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2023
    Super Heroes

    How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

    By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler  February 16, 2023
    Page 10 of 47

    • We Need Your Help:

    Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

    Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.