• History

    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Medieval Invention of Travel Writing

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   January 12, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  January 11, 2021
    Patriarchy

    Bearing Witness to the Legacy of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes

    By Caelainn Hogan  January 11, 2021
    Insurrections

    From Al Qaeda to QAnon: Rebecca Solnit on the Inside Job at the Capitol

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 9, 2021
    Teaching

    How Teachers Can Foster a Space of Curiosity

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 8, 2021
    Black History

    On the Greatest Speech of Jesse
    Jackson’s Life

    By David Masciotra  January 8, 2021
    Insurrections

    A Dark Day in the Capitol: Donald Trump Calls For Insurrection

    By Liesl Schillinger  January 7, 2021
    Climate Crisis Readings

    Activists, Scientists, and Poets: Your Climate Readings for January

    By Amy Brady  January 7, 2021
    Mythology

    On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains

    By Ed Douglas  January 7, 2021
    Comics

    The Spiritual Message at the Heart of ‘Peanuts’

    By Andrew Blauner  January 7, 2021
    Keen On

    Reporting on Human Suffering in COVID Times Means Looking to the Past

    By Keen On  January 7, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Plight of Britain’s Nuclear Test Veterans

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   January 7, 2021
    Travel

    In Search of the Muslim
    Community of Ladakh

    By Medina Tenour Whiteman  January 7, 2021
    On Writing

    People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

    By Lore Segal  January 6, 2021
    Food

    Cold War Turned Flavor War: On European Food Disparity, From East to West

    By Slavenka Drakulic  January 6, 2021
    Capitalism

    On the Insidious ‘Laziness Lie’ at the Heart of the American Myth

    By Devon Price  January 6, 2021
    Anti-racism

    How to Build an Antiracist Workshop

    By Felicia Rose Chavez  January 6, 2021
    The Maris Review

    David Hill on America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice

    By The Maris Review  January 6, 2021
    Queer Community

    Why Don’t Advertisers Target Queer Women?

    By Koa Beck  January 6, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead, Read by Derek Perkins

    By Behind the Mic   January 6, 2021
    Literary History

    On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

    By Nuala O'Connor  January 5, 2021
    Spiritualists

    Why Did Everyone in the 19th Century Think They Could Talk to the Dead?

    By Kevin Dann  January 5, 2021
    Yoga

    On the Most Misunderstood
    Aspect of Yoga

    By Daniel Simpson  January 5, 2021
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