Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was... Kind of a Dump

Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was... Kind of a Dump

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the Library’s Transformation Under Sir Thomas Bodley

By Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen | November 10, 2021

Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

Michael Ignatieff Examines What It Means to Find Solace in the Face of Destruction

By Michael Ignatieff | November 10, 2021

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the History of Libraries

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the History of Libraries

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 10, 2021

Unseen Design: How We Underestimate the Tangled Wisdom of the Human Throat

Unseen Design: How We Underestimate the Tangled Wisdom of the Human Throat

Jonathan Reisman on the Complicated Wonders of Anatomy

By Jonathan Reisman, M.D. | November 10, 2021

Ruben Gallego on the Fate of Lima Company During and After Iraq

Ruben Gallego on the Fate of Lima Company During and After Iraq

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 10, 2021

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | November 10, 2021

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Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2021

Why a group of COVID-skeptical writers and their publisher are suing Elizabeth Warren.

By Walker Caplan | November 9, 2021

Omar El Akkad has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

By Snigdha Koirala | November 9, 2021

Remember when Carl Sagan trashed <em>Star Wars</em> on late-night TV?

Remember when Carl Sagan trashed Star Wars on late-night TV?

By Vanessa Willoughby | November 9, 2021

Roistering, drunken and doomed: Listen to 5 famous Welshmen reciting Dylan Thomas.

Roistering, drunken and doomed: Listen to 5 famous Welshmen reciting Dylan Thomas.

By Dan Sheehan | November 9, 2021

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

On the Growing Potential of Computational Literature

By Drew Zeiba | November 9, 2021

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

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

Featuring Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Alison MacLeod, Robin McLean, and More

By Teddy Wayne | November 9, 2021

How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

Dan Jones Maps the Fault Lines of Collapse

By Dan Jones | November 9, 2021

How to Reopen a High School Library 18 Months After a Pandemic Closure

How to Reopen a High School Library 18 Months After a Pandemic Closure

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Joys and Aches of Re-Entry

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | November 9, 2021

The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

Bob Spitz on the Men Behind Led Zeppelin

By Bob Spitz | November 9, 2021

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