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The Ancient Origins of Our Fascination With Flight

The Ancient Origins of Our Fascination With Flight

Edward McPherson on Why We Can’t Get Enough of the Bird’s Eye View

By Edward McPherson | October 24, 2025

<em>The Lit Hub Podcast</em> Talks the 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist

The Lit Hub Podcast Talks the 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist

Featuring Ryan Chapman and Drew Broussard — plus a voicemail from Nicole Brinkley

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 24, 2025

Enjoy Your Chocolate and Champagne While It Lasts

Enjoy Your Chocolate and Champagne While It Lasts

Sam Kass Considers the Impact of Climate Change on Food Production Worldwide

By Sam Kass | October 24, 2025

When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

Gabriel Urza on Making the Move From Criminal Justice to Creative Writing

By Gabriel Urza | October 24, 2025

Remembering Writer and <em>New Yorker</em> Mainstay Alison Rose

Remembering Writer and New Yorker Mainstay Alison Rose

Cynthia Zarin on Her Late Friend: “She was like an exclamation point in Garamond type...”

By Cynthia Zarin | October 24, 2025

Julian Brave NoiseCat on How Directing a Documentary Shaped His Memoir

Julian Brave NoiseCat on How Directing a Documentary Shaped His Memoir

“Nonfiction is, at its core, about how one chooses to live and observe life.”

By Julian Brave NoiseCat | October 24, 2025

Best Reviewed
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Fall of Freedom, “a nationwide wave of creative resistance,” starts next month.

By James Folta | October 23, 2025

Rooting for the Louvre thieves? Here are seven books to read if you love art crime.

By Brittany Allen | October 23, 2025

Here's the shortlist for the 2025 John Dos Passos prize.

By Brittany Allen | October 23, 2025

Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work

Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work

“I see film and books as apples and oranges. Both are fruits, but the taste is remarkably different.”

By Stephen King | October 23, 2025

On the Impromptu Walgreens Concert That Got Evan Dando to Sober Up

On the Impromptu Walgreens Concert That Got Evan Dando to Sober Up

“I’ve been lost and found more times than I can count,
but it was time to make a change.”

By Evan Dando | October 23, 2025

Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb

Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb

Serhii Plokhy Digs Into the Rush to Research and Develop Nuclear Warfare in Germany, the USSR, and Japan

By Serhii Plokhy | October 23, 2025

“You’ll See, a Lot Will Happen When I Die.” Remembering Gary Indiana

“You’ll See, a Lot Will Happen When I Die.” Remembering Gary Indiana

Publishers Hedi El Kholti and Dan Simon Reminisce About the Author and Friend on the Anniversary of His Death

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2025

Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War

Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War

Cundill Prize Finalist Lyndal Roper Recommends Friedrich Engels, Peter Blickle, Gerd Schwerhoff and More

By Lyndal Roper | October 23, 2025

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

Imaobong Umoren on the Violent History of the Colonized Caribbean

By Imaobong Umoren | October 23, 2025

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus

James Folta on the Dark Folly of the
American Colossus Foundation

By James Folta | October 22, 2025

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