Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

A Spooky Season Spectacular

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 18, 2024

The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System

The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System

From the Opioid Crisis to the Cost of Insulin, What the Bottom Line Has Done to Our Lives

By Literary Hub | October 18, 2024

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Emily J. Orlando Considers Another Creative Side of the Chronicler of the Gilded Age

By Emily J. Orlando | October 18, 2024

The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

Patrick Radden Keefe, Denis Johnson, Beth Macy, and More

By Literary Hub | October 18, 2024

We Can’t Rely on Drug Companies to Keep Insulin Prices Low

We Can’t Rely on Drug Companies to Keep Insulin Prices Low

Maris Kreizman on Living at the Whim of Corporate Pharmaceuticals

By Maris Kreizman | October 18, 2024

Between Agency and Fate: Towards a New Poetics of Illness and Healing

Between Agency and Fate: Towards a New Poetics of Illness and Healing

Eleni Stecopoulos: “To be the hero or victim of one’s story is to deny the lines of power that cross and enervate our bodies.”

By Eleni Stecopoulos | October 18, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Legendary Pastry Chef Dominique Ansel Recommends a No-Frills Way to Pop the Question

By Dominique Ansel | October 18, 2024

The Original Eurotrip: How the Grand Tour Shaped Generations of 19th-Century Elites

By Steve Burgess | October 18, 2024

Five Essential Books For Understanding Native American History

By Kathleen DuVal | October 17, 2024

Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

How Iris Jamahl Dunkle Found the Fuller Story of the Life of Sanora Babb

By Iris Jamahl Dunkle | October 17, 2024

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

Helen Castor on the Timeless Resonance of a Medieval Political Crisis

By Helen Castor | October 17, 2024

“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

Rae Garringer Talks to Elandria Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee

By Rae Garringer | October 17, 2024

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

Marian Crotty Shares How Her Queer Fiction Was Shaped by a Research Trip to South Dakota

By Marian Crotty | October 17, 2024

Here are the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize.

Here are the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize.

By Literary Hub | October 16, 2024

The Power and Possibility of Play: Why Science Is More Than Just Facts and Equations

The Power and Possibility of Play: Why Science Is More Than Just Facts and Equations

Kelsey Johnson Considers the Often-Overlooked Creative Side of Scientific Inquiry

By Kelsey Johnson | October 16, 2024

Brittany Rogers on How Libraries Helped Her Feel Safe and Embrace Her Queerness

Brittany Rogers on How Libraries Helped Her Feel Safe and Embrace Her Queerness

The Author of “Good Dress” Explores Libraries as Spaces for Self-Growth for Her and the Next Generation

By Brittany Rogers | October 16, 2024

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