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    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

     
    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2024
    Fascism

    How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    Moral Panics

    On “White Slavery” and the Roots of the Contemporary Sex Trafficking Panic

    By Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam  December 12, 2024
    Food Writing

    Learning to Make the World’s Rarest Pasta

    By Eliot Stein  December 11, 2024
    Monuments

    Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

    By Brandon Shimoda  December 11, 2024
    Underreported

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

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Mexican Literature

    Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

    By Merve Emre  December 9, 2024
    Doctors

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

    By Lydia Reeder  December 9, 2024
    Cultural History

    Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

    By Glenn Adamson  December 6, 2024
    Gaza

    Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

    On the Impact of—and Response to—14 Months of Israel’s Assault on Gaza

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    The Hub

    An emo note by a 14-year-old Franz Kafka is up for auction.

    By James Folta  December 4, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

    By John Brandon  December 4, 2024
    The Hub

    A little treat for Caro-heads: Bryan Cranston reads from The Power Broker.

    By James Folta  December 3, 2024
    AIDS

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

    Heather McCalden on World AIDS Day, Ribbons, and Viruses

    By Heather McCalden  December 2, 2024
    Italian Literature

    A Riveting, Timeless Journey Through the Afterlife: Inside the World of Dante’s Divine Comedy

    By Michael Palma  December 2, 2024
    Women's Rights

    “Closer To a Pet.” How Women Were Viewed by 19th-Century America

    By Stephanie Gorton  November 26, 2024
    Palestine

    What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

    By Aaron Boehmer  November 25, 2024
    Ancient History

    How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World’s First Writing System

    Bartle Bull on the Mesopotamian Origins of Modern Civilization

    By Bartle Bull  November 22, 2024
    2024 Election

    On the Fragility of American Democracy… and the Power of Young Black Activists to Save It

    By Rita Omokha  November 21, 2024
    Underreported

    Texas public school students could soon be tested on the Bible.

    By Brittany Allen  November 20, 2024
    The Moon

    “Moonstruck.” How Myths of Lunar Power Continue to Fascinate Us

    By Kate Golembiewski  November 20, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read if you can’t wait for the next season of You Must Remember This.

    By Brittany Allen  November 19, 2024
    The Royal Family

    Victoria’s Secret: How a Teenage Girl Became the Queen of England

    By Anne Somerset  November 18, 2024
    Black History

    Still Fighting For Liberty and Justice For All: A Visual History of Black America

    By LaGarrett King  November 18, 2024
    Home Libraries

    A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

    By Andrew Hui  December 5, 2024
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