• History

    The Spanish Civil War

    Why the Spanish Civil War Mattered to Writers on Distant Shores

    By Sarah Watling  May 15, 2023
    Medical history

    The Reproductive Movement Must Reclaim Its Radical Roots and Be More Inclusive

    By Julie Carr  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
    Mother's Day

    “They Are the Mothers!” From Goethe to Cusk, Halting Progress for Moms

    By Jennifer Banks  May 12, 2023
    The Maris Review

    A Kind of Mutuality: Christina Sharpe on the Importance of Regard

    By The Maris Review  May 11, 2023
    Music history

    How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

    By Jonny Steinberg  May 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

    By Keen On  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
    Medical history

    How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

    By Jennifer Lunden  May 10, 2023
    Art History

    On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

    By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

    By Jo Baker  May 10, 2023
    Chinese History

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    By Tania Branigan  May 10, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Viduy, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother

    By Shalom Auslander  May 8, 2023
    Tourism

    The Advanced Guard of Tourism: Tracing a Direct Line Between the Lonely Planet Travel Guides and The Beach

    By James Brooke-Smith  May 5, 2023
    On Writing

    What I Learned Revising My First Novel After Publication

    By Lisa Harding  May 5, 2023
    Lit Hub Radio

    Paul Kix on the Ten Weeks in 1963 That Changed America

    By Keen On  May 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael Lind Explains How the Suppression of Wages and Unions is Destroying America

    By Keen On  May 4, 2023
    Race

    Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of “Passing” in America

    By Herb Harris  May 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Angeline Boulley on the Need to Get Beyond Trauma in Native Literature

    By Keen On  May 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Heroism During WWII

    By Keen On  May 3, 2023
    Medical history

    The Problematic Myth of Florence Nightingale

    By Sarah DiGregorio  May 2, 2023
    Black History

    The Storming of Caesars Palace: On 50 Years of Progress Won By Black Mothers

    By Annelise Orleck  May 1, 2023
    Immigration stories

    In Search of My Long Lost Father: The Crown Prince of Chinatown

    By Ava Chin  May 1, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    David Grann: Diving Into History, the Trials of a Sea Voyage, and Sailing the Gulf of Pain

    By The Literary Life  April 28, 2023
    Vietnam

    The Vietnam War, 50 Years On: A Reading List

    By George Black  April 28, 2023
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