• History

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    1946: The Making of the Modern World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 10, 2015
    Essay

    Reading Henry Dumas After Trayvon Martin

    By Drew Johnson  November 4, 2015
    Correspondence

    Letters to Vera

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 4, 2015
    Essay

    The Greatest (Sellout) Generation

    By Buzz Poole  November 3, 2015
    Archives

    The Smith Tapes: Lost Interviews with Rock Stars & Icons 1969-1972

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 3, 2015
    Excerpts

    Behind the Madness of the Salem Witch Hunt

    By Stacy Schiff  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of Witches

    By Jess Bergman  October 30, 2015
    Biography

    History’s People

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 21, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of Whales

    By Blair Beusman  October 16, 2015
    Whales

    There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket

    By Ben Shattuck  October 16, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

    By Joel Cuthbertson  October 16, 2015
    Essay

    Hitler-Spotting at the Frankfurt Bookfair

    By Tara Bray Smith  October 14, 2015
    Biography

    A Woman Alone in China

    By Virginia Pye  October 14, 2015
    Excerpts

    The Children of Chernobyl, In Their Own Words

    By Svetlana Alexievich  October 13, 2015
    Travel

    Is Topeka the Most Poetic City in America?

    By Amy Brady  October 13, 2015
    Excerpts

    Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 9, 2015
    History

    The Unseen Theft of America’s Literary History

    By Travis McDade  October 8, 2015
    Essay

    Black Voices Matter: The Genius of Jeffery Renard Allen

    By Charles Johnson  October 6, 2015
    Essay

    Jeanette Winterson Rewrites Shakespeare

    By Jeanette Winterson  October 6, 2015
    History

    Did It Really Happen? Fact, Fiction, Fate

    By Leslie Pietrzyk  October 5, 2015
    Excerpts

    The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 1, 2015
    Essay

    Identities Adrift Off the American Shore

    By Joohwan Kim  September 30, 2015
    Essay

    Exploring Patrick Modiano’s Paris

    By Debarati Sanyal  September 28, 2015
    Excerpts

    How The French Think

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 28, 2015
    Excerpts

    Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 22, 2015
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