The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

By Tiana Clark | April 14, 2025

Here's everything that's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's everything that's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | April 11, 2025

<em>Drop</em> is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age

Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age

The Film Excels at Dramatizing the Practical Dangers of Living in a Digital World

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 11, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of <em>The Stacks</em>, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of The Stacks, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

Featuring Jonny Diamond, Traci Thomas, Olivia Rutigliano, Dan Sheehan, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

How <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans

How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans

Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs on Their Shared Love For the TV Cult Favorite

By Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs | April 11, 2025

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Here are the winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

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The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

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<em> Goodnight, Moon </em> is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children's book stamps.

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Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

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Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

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