First Impressions: 15 Years of <em>The Common</em> Through Its Covers

First Impressions: 15 Years of The Common Through Its Covers

Kei Lim Talks to Gabriele Wilson About the Process Behind Crafting the Magazine's Visual Identity

By Kei Lim | June 9, 2025

Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

"I spend the hours-long dream chanting the line, determined to remember it, because the part of me that is awake, that is aware, knows I will want it later."

By Hala Alyan | June 9, 2025

“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

Erica Stern Considers a Traumatic Birth and the Many That Came Before

By Erica Stern | June 9, 2025

Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | June 6, 2025

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

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | June 6, 2025

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Joan Didion’s Privacy, Writers Beware, and Wes Anderson

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Joan Didion’s Privacy, Writers Beware, and Wes Anderson

featuring Evelyn McDonnell, Kate McKean, Brittany K. Allen, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | June 6, 2025

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Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

By Aram Mrjoian | June 6, 2025

Compulsory Silence: On the State-Led Suppression of Language in American Prisons

By Amir Hussain | June 6, 2025

Writing Nature: The Healing Connection of Space and Spirit

By Bridget Crocker | June 6, 2025

New Yorkers can meet the Moomins at a new exhibit. (And for everyone else, here's a sneak preview.)

New Yorkers can meet the Moomins at a new exhibit. (And for everyone else, here's a sneak preview.)

By Brittany Allen | June 5, 2025

Karen Leeder and Durs Grünbein have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Karen Leeder and Durs Grünbein have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

By Literary Hub | June 5, 2025

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

Daegan Miller on the Beloved Nature Writer’s Latest Work

By Daegan Miller | June 5, 2025

There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

Maris Kreizman Will Never, Ever Catch Up on Her Reading

By Maris Kreizman | June 5, 2025

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On <em>Notes to John</em> and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On Notes to John and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

Evelyn McDonnell Considers the Questions Answered—and Raised—by the Book

By Evelyn McDonnell | June 5, 2025

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

By Brando Simeo Starkey | June 5, 2025

Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Greta Morgan on Finding New Ways to Express Her Creative Passions After a Devastating Diagnosis

By Greta Morgan | June 5, 2025

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