One Night at Mable Peabody’s, The Last Gay Bar in Denton, Texas

One Night at Mable Peabody’s, The Last Gay Bar in Denton, Texas

Lucas Hilderbrand Explores Queer Culture in the Early Trump Years

By Lucas Hilderbrand | November 22, 2023

Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

"Why do we make art, why do we need it, and how can you avoid becoming a failure?"

By Benjamin Moser | November 20, 2023

How a Musical Adaptation of Tolstoy Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic

How a Musical Adaptation of Tolstoy Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic

Theodore Wheeler on Dave Molloy's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

By Theodore Wheeler | November 20, 2023

On Learning to Ride a Motorcycle After Fifty

On Learning to Ride a Motorcycle After Fifty

Kim McLarin on Why It's Never Too Late to Feel Dangerous and Accomplished

By Kim McLarin | November 17, 2023

Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

"We go to books for solace, and for proof, to begin again at the beginning."

By Beth Kephart | November 16, 2023

Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

"This spring, I fell in love with John Gower, who died in 1408."

By Katherine Churchill | November 15, 2023

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Extreme Ithacans: James Elkins on the Joy of Immersion in a Place

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Sacred Space: Why Libraries Are Essential to Incarcerated Writers

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How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth

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Grace Elizabeth Hale Explores Racial Violence and Individual and Collective Complicity in the American South

By Grace Elizabeth Hale | November 8, 2023

Stephanie Land on the Routine That Helped Her Write Her New Book in a Month

Stephanie Land on the Routine That Helped Her Write Her New Book in a Month

The Author of Class Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Stephanie Land | November 7, 2023

Whose Community Is It Anyway?

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Casey Plett on how Politicians, Media, and Corporations Co-Opt Language

By Casey Plett | November 7, 2023

In Search of Hidden Family History in the Late Ottoman Empire

In Search of Hidden Family History in the Late Ottoman Empire

Alice Sparberg Alexiou on Love and Loss From Jerusalem to Izmir

By Alice Sparberg Alexiou | November 6, 2023

Love and Looking: On What We (Don't) See Together

Love and Looking: On What We (Don't) See Together

Devorah Baum Considers the Role of Observation in Art and Romance

By Devorah Baum | November 2, 2023

The Call of the Void: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Losing Home, Identity, and Her Father

The Call of the Void: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Losing Home, Identity, and Her Father

"What it is I have inherited from him more profoundly: his Palestinian-ness or his propensity to fall?"

By Hannah Lillith Assadi | November 2, 2023

A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

Thirteen Maqams for an Afterlife

By Fady Joudah | November 1, 2023

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