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    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Tom Crewe and Colm Tóibín on the Joyful History of Gay Life

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 18, 2023
    Literary History

    The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

    By Richard Bradford  January 17, 2023
    Reproductive Rights

    How It Took a Diverse Coalition to Truly Fight for Reproductive Freedom in America

    By Felicia Kornbluh  January 13, 2023
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
    Travel Writing

    Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

    By Pico Iyer  January 11, 2023
    American History

    After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

    By Jacqueline Jones  January 11, 2023
    The Virtual Book Channel

    What Does the Plight of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tell Us About Contemporary American Struggles?

    By Keen On  January 10, 2023
    Family History

    Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

    By Nicky Beer  January 9, 2023
    Labor

    The Original Pinocchio Is a Radical Anti-Work Story

    By Alessandro Delfanti  January 6, 2023
    Fascism

    We Can’t Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

    By Natasha Lester  January 6, 2023
    Socialism

    A Brief History of American Socialism

    By Michael Kazin  January 5, 2023
    Fascism

    How Mussolini’s Legacy Lives on in Both the Public and Private Spheres

    By Andrea Bajani  January 5, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

    By Aanchal Malhotra  January 4, 2023
    On Craft

    On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

    By V.V. Ganeshananthan  January 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Remembering a London of 1946 in which Fearsome Female Gangsters Ran the Show

    By Keen On  January 4, 2023
    Read This Watch That

    What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
    Keen On

    How to Escape the Culture-War Paranoia That Has Infected American Politics Since the Sixties

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Watergate Will Never Die: The Moral Lessons of One of Nixon’s White House Plumbers

    By Keen On  December 28, 2022
    European History

    From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

    By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
    Protest

    How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

    By Daniel Akst  December 21, 2022
    Poets

    Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

    By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
    Fascism

    Reading Ezra Pound in the Neofascist Age of Trump

    By Tom Rea  December 20, 2022
    Fashion

    Meet the Nonconformist Designer Who Revolutionized 1960s Fashion

    By Federico Chiara  December 19, 2022
    Rare Books

    What Happened to the Rare Books Brought Aboard the Titanic?

    By Emma Smith  December 19, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 15, 2022
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