• Health

    Pandemics

    How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza

    Edna Bonhomme on the Public and Private Battles Waged Across Europe and the United States During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

     
    By Edna Bonhomme  March 24, 2025
    Illness

    On Writing the Hospital

    By Madeleine Wulfahrt  March 20, 2025
    Parenting

    Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

    By Alex Bollen  March 20, 2025
    On Writing

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

    By Literary Hub  March 19, 2025
    The Writing Life

    What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

    By Will Rees  March 12, 2025
    Illness

    Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

    By Sophie Strand  March 6, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Gaza

    A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

    By Seema Jilani  March 5, 2025
    Illness

    Matters of the Heart: On Daily Life With a Defective Yet Vital Organ

    By Jeffrey L. Kosky  February 26, 2025
    Blindness

    An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties

    By Jane Tara  February 26, 2025
    Brain Injury

    A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

    The Author of “Pieces You’ll Never Get Back” Reflects on the Aphasia that Forever Altered Her Life and Art

    By Samina Ali  March 21, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    The Politics of Place: A Conversation Between Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali

    By Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali  January 13, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Trauma

    Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

    Gabeba Baderoon Considers the Ways We Do and Do Not Confront Personal and Collective Violence

    By Gabeba Baderoon  January 10, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Self-Help?

    The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

    By Ian Williams  December 16, 2024
    AIDS

    On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?

    By Heather McCalden  December 2, 2024
    Illness

    An Ageist Disease: On Living in Fear of Alzheimer’s

    Andrea Gilats o Explores Confounding Questions of Aggression, Identity Shifts, and Care for the Afflicted

    By Andrea Gilats  November 21, 2024
    Illness

    Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

    By Traci Brimhall  November 19, 2024
    Safety Nets

    What If the Covid Safety Net Had Been a Starting Point For Change?

    By Steven W. Thrasher  November 8, 2024
    On Grief

    On Illness and Death as Text and Autocorrect

    By Malwina Gudowska  November 7, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    Imagining a World Where Reproductive Justice is For Everyone

    Renee Bracey Sherman on the Urgent State of Abortion Rights in America

    By Renee Bracey Sherman  October 30, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The Issues 2024: Reproductive Rights Are Truly on the Ballot

    By Jonny Diamond  October 30, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The 10 Best Books on Reproductive Rights

    By Catherine Habgood  October 30, 2024
    On Writing

    After the Fall: Hanif Kureishi on Trauma, Recovery and What It Means to Be a Writer

    By Hanif Kureishi  February 11, 2025
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