Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon

Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon

Nicole Kobie on the Potential and Limits of Android Intelligence and Autonomy

By Nicole Kobie | September 26, 2024

Freedom and Responsibility: Why Earth’s Survival Depends on All of Us

Freedom and Responsibility: Why Earth’s Survival Depends on All of Us

Sunil Amrith on the Imperative Need to Understand the Long History of Human Impact on the Environment

By Sunil Amrith | September 25, 2024

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

Elyse Graham Explores the Mundane Yet Dangerous World of Espionage During the Second World War

By Elyse Graham | September 25, 2024

How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on the Systematic Post-War Displacement of Communities of Color

By Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis | September 25, 2024

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

John MacNeill Miller on Harriet Martineau’s Prescient Vision of Humanity

By John MacNeill Miller | September 25, 2024

What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

Jeff Schuhrke on Creating a Global Working-Class Movement

By Jeff Schuhrke | September 25, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

By Isabella Hammad | September 24, 2024

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

By Joel Edward Goza | September 23, 2024

Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

By Sonia Purnell | September 20, 2024

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Kim Liao Explores Her Grandfather's History as a Freedom Fighter and Dissident in Taiwan

By Kim Liao | September 20, 2024

How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

Prithi Kanakamedala Explores the Little Known History of 19th-Century New York City

By Prithi Kanakamedala | September 18, 2024

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard

By David Browne | September 18, 2024

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

What Freedom Means in Moments of Economic and Political Transformation

By Timothy Snyder | September 17, 2024

A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

From David Van Reybrouck’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Revolusi”

By David Van Reybrouck | September 17, 2024

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

The Author of “Question 7” Remembers His Father’s Imprisonment at Ohama Camp

By Richard Flanagan | September 16, 2024

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now

By Ben Ehrenreich | September 13, 2024

Page 30 of 221

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member