• News and Culture

    The Hub

    Highly recommended: the intimacy of correspondence via voice message.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Get ready for another Twilight novel.

    By Jessie Gaynor  May 4, 2020
    The Hub

    The National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize goes to DIBS for Kids.

    By Katie Yee  May 4, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Nature Tourism During the Pandemic Offers a Lesson in Ecological Ethics

    By Todd Robert Petersen  May 4, 2020
    Conversations

    Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

    By Sarah Moore  May 4, 2020
    Musicians

    Tori Amos is Always Listening
    to The Muses

    By Brian Gresko  May 4, 2020
    Reading Lists

    The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

    By Mariella Guzzoni  May 4, 2020
    Art

    20 Artists’ Visions of Alice in Wonderland From the Last 155 Years

    By Emily Temple  May 4, 2020
    Art

    At a Fabled Artist’s Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice

    By Marilyn Chase  May 4, 2020
    Colonialism

    The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

    By Kristen Millares Young  May 4, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Celebrate Five Years of LIC Reading Series With Us

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    A Virtual Afternoon With Fanny Singer & Alice Waters

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    The Kristen Arnett Show: Elissa Washuta on the Boundaries of Saying No

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 1, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    LIC Reading Series Live From Quarantine: Featuring Alexander Chee and Paul Lisicky

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 1, 2020
    Nerd Jeopardy

    Time for Nerd Jeopardy! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 1, 2020
    The Week in Books

    The Week in Books LIVE:
    Joy Harjo, Discworld, and Some Thoughts on Henry Kissinger

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Happy May Day! We’re not working today.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 1, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

    By Gill Hornby  May 1, 2020
    Criticism

    The Internet Novel Is As Chaotic As Your Twitter Feed

    By Maddie Crum  May 1, 2020
    Criticism

    How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
    of Violence

    By Pepper Stetler  May 1, 2020
    Mental health

    The Abnormalizing of the World: A Conversation On Mental Illness

    By Marin Sardy and Sarah Townsend  May 1, 2020
    Education

    The Young Girl Who Became Don Quixote (If Not a Little Better)

    By Stephen Haff  May 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Adam Driver is set to star in (yet another) adaptation of a David Grann article.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 30, 2020
    Sheltering

    Sheltering: Joanna Hershon on Internal Rage and Dramatic Promise

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Joy Harjo will serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate.

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2020
    Page 475 of 718