• Music

    Musicians

    On the Rise and Fall of Fictional Rock Stars

    By Glenn Dixon  April 5, 2021
    Representation

    This Must Be the Place: On the Transcendent Refuge of the Musical Past

    By Dawnie Walton  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to this playlist of every song Haruki Murakami has ever written about.

    By Walker Caplan  March 19, 2021
    The Hub

    This website turns all our collective Wikipedia editing into ambient music in real time.

    By Walker Caplan  March 18, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    Ozzy, Mötley, Poison… On the Sacred Role of the Hair Metal Ballad

    By Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock  March 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a new song inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2021
    Afrofuturism

    Women Who Fly: Talking to Nona Hendryx About Afrofuturist Histories

    By Emily Lordi  March 16, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

    By Don Lee  March 15, 2021
    Celebrity

    When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

    By Donna Florio  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    An audio deepfake of Gucci Mane can now read you classic books.

    By Walker Caplan  March 4, 2021
    Music history

    Like a Tidal Wave: Tracing the Inescapable Explosion of
    Latin Music

    By Leila Cobo  March 4, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sanford Biggers on the Unlikely Kinship Between Hip Hop and Quilting

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 26, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Alicia Hall Moran on the Lessons of Toni Morrison

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 24, 2021
    Music history

    The Woman Who Preserved Zora Neale Hurston’s Musical Legacy

    By Daphne A. Brooks  February 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Haruki Murakami hosted a bossa nova jam over the weekend—and you can watch it online now.

    By Walker Caplan  February 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell.

    By Walker Caplan  February 11, 2021
    Keen On

    Are We Starving Our Brains by Going Digital?

    By Keen On  February 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Radio

    Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick, Read by Jim Meskimen

    By Behind the Mic   February 1, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Eugenio Ampudia on His ‘Concert for the Biocene’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  January 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Arlo Parks’s much-anticipated debut album was inspired by the work of Zadie Smith.

    By Walker Caplan  January 28, 2021
    Folk Music

    Voices of the People: On Folk Music as a Living Art Form

    By Ellen Harper  January 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Upgrade your writing soundtrack with Patricia Highsmith’s favorite songs.

    By Emily Temple  January 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Yusuf/Cat Stevens is turning his song “Peace Train” into a children’s book.

    By Walker Caplan  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Who is going to publish Lizzo’s “sci-fi fantasy romance” novel?

    By Emily Temple  January 13, 2021
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