Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

David Steinberg on the Life and Times of an Iconic Entertainer

By David Steinberg | July 14, 2021

How Sicilians Are Mobilizing in Support of Migrants’ Rights

How Sicilians Are Mobilizing in Support of Migrants’ Rights

Jamie Mackay on the Island’s Diverse Present and Future

By Jamie Mackay | July 14, 2021

What Losing My Childhood Dog Taught Me About Grief and Companionship

What Losing My Childhood Dog Taught Me About Grief and Companionship

Chloe Shaw Tries to Answer One Question: “What is a Dog?”

By Chloe Shaw | July 14, 2021

Mary Gauthier on Songwriting as a Form of Healing

Mary Gauthier on Songwriting as a Form of Healing

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 14, 2021

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

Rae Nudson Considers the History of the Stonewall Raids and the Protests That Followed

By Rae Nudson | July 14, 2021

Alaska’s libraries are facing devastating funding cuts.

Alaska’s libraries are facing devastating funding cuts.

By Walker Caplan | July 13, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

A few takeaways from this list of the best-selling books of the year (so far).

By Walker Caplan | July 13, 2021

Watch Jack Antonoff perform a song he wrote with Zadie Smith.

By Walker Caplan | July 13, 2021

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

By scottasmall | July 13, 2021

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

The Author of Wayward in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 13, 2021

Searching for <em>Moby-Dick</em> (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Rick White on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the Whaleness of Whiteyball

By Rick White | July 13, 2021

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

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

Featuring Anuk Arudpragasam, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Elizabeth Greenwood, and More

By Teddy Wayne | July 13, 2021

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

Tahmima Anam on the Serious Business of Being Funny

By Tahmima Anam | July 13, 2021

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

Savala Nolan on the Medical Field’s Cruel Indifference to Black Mothers

By Savala Nolan | July 13, 2021

“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

Helen Ellis Talks Feminine Etiquette, Playing Coy, and Winning

By Helen Ellis | July 13, 2021

John Hagel on the Psychology of Fear for the Future

John Hagel on the Psychology of Fear for the Future

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 13, 2021

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