• News and Culture

    Fatherhood

    The Terrifying Doubts—and Important Lessons—of Becoming an Older Father

    By Joshua Mohr  March 10, 2021
    Civil Rights

    Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

    By John Archibald  March 10, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

    By David Varno  March 10, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Unsolaced by Gretel Ehrlich, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   March 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Check out this video game inspired by Haruki Murakami’s short stories.

    By Walker Caplan  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    A new Hans Christen Andersen museum takes architectural inspiration from one of his stories.

    By Emily Temple  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Art Spiegelman and Robert Coover have collaborated (over Zoom!) on a new illustrated dystopian story.

    By Emily Temple  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the literary Twitter bot that’s helped me survive lockdown.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, has died at 91.

    By Emily Temple  March 9, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

    By Elizabeth Kolbert  March 9, 2021
    Fashion

    How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

    By Sophie Wilson  March 9, 2021
    Book Covers

    50 Very Bad Book Covers for
    Literary Classics

    By Emily Temple  March 9, 2021
    Conservation

    On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

    By Michelle Nijhuis  March 9, 2021
    Philosophy

    Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

    By Robert Zaretsky  March 9, 2021
    Celebrity

    When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

    By Donna Florio  March 9, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Fred Wiseman on the Winning Combination of Luck and Good Judgment

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  March 9, 2021
    Illness

    And Death Shall Have Dominion: Tales of Doctors, Their Patients, and What Comes For Us All

    By Theodore Dalrymple  March 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Our (Nonexistent) Work-Life Balance Is Hitting Peak Urgency

    By Keen On  March 9, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner

    By Carlin Romano  March 9, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert, Read by Rebecca Lowman

    By Behind the Mic   March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    We’re finally getting a Kindred adaptation!

    By Dan Sheehan  March 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look inside this rare, self-published Andy Warhol cookbook.

    By Walker Caplan  March 8, 2021
    Travel

    Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

    By Walker Caplan  March 8, 2021
    Travel

    Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

    By Walker Caplan  March 8, 2021
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