What Do We Do with <em>The Age of Innocence</em> in 2020?

What Do We Do with The Age of Innocence in 2020?

Sarah Blackwood on the Lasting Insights of Edith Wharton's Classic

By Sarah Blackwood | March 3, 2020

On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison's Catholicism

On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison's Catholicism

Nick Ripatrazone Considers the Faith of an American Icon

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 2, 2020

<em>The Woman in Black</em> has come to haunt New York City.

The Woman in Black has come to haunt New York City.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 28, 2020

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in February

By Literary Hub | February 28, 2020

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

The Films of Dario Argento as a Metaphor for Illness

By Lonely Christopher | February 28, 2020

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

Zee Francis Goes Deep Into the Subtext of Willa Cather's My Ántonia

By Zee Francis | February 28, 2020

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Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck's Lessons in Justice and Power

By Literary Hub | February 27, 2020

A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson's Life

By Martha Ackmann | February 26, 2020

A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of The Price of Salt

By Antonia Angress | February 25, 2020

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

Gretel Ehrlich on Yuri Rythkeu's Eulogy for the Chukchi Whale Hunt

By Gretel Ehrlich | February 24, 2020

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

"He is not a witch, he is bewitched.”

By Jean Genet | February 24, 2020

Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

Chelsea Leu on the Seductions and Limitations of a Billion-Dollar Genre

By Chelsea Leu | February 21, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of<br> Amelia Earhart

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
Amelia Earhart

A Missing Pilot and Her Poems

By Traci Brimhall | February 21, 2020

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

Julian Barnes on Fake News, Religious Tension, and "Gangster Imperialism" Abounded

By Julian Barnes | February 18, 2020

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

But Probably Not For Your Loneliness

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2020

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

Michelle Chihara Digs Through the Didion Family's Land Records

By Michelle Chihara | February 14, 2020

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