• News and Culture

    Architecture

    On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

    By Paul Hendrickson  November 6, 2019
    Activism

    What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

    By Franny Nudelman  November 6, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

    By Mo Rocca  November 6, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    The Surreal Absurdity of Preparing for a Mother’s Death

    By Tiffany Midge  November 6, 2019
    Family

    When a Family Measures Time By Its Losses

    By Marco Rafalà  November 6, 2019
    Food

    What Was It Like to Bake the Royal Wedding Cake?

    By Bethanne Patrick  November 6, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Nonfiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 6, 2019
    The Hub

    Literary Earthquakes: Tori Amos is publishing a memoir

    By Dan Sheehan  November 5, 2019
    The Hub

    Florida men deny smalltown library access to the New York Times online, citing “fake news.”

    By Jonny Diamond  November 5, 2019
    Dictators

    Report From Foul Territory: Donald Trump Can’t Even Do Baseball Cliches Right

    By Timothy Denevi  November 5, 2019
    5 Questions

    Bernardine Evaristo on the Illusion of Writer’s Block

    By Literary Hub  November 5, 2019
    Ideologues

    From Entertainment to Outrage: On the Rise of Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio

    By Brian Rosenwald  November 5, 2019
    European History

    The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

    By Brendan Simms  November 5, 2019
    Abortion

    Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

    By Lindy West  November 5, 2019
    Music

    Rock, Pop, and the Development of Avant Garde Music After World War II

    By Benjamin Piekut  November 5, 2019
    American History

    How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

    By Sherrod Brown  November 5, 2019
    Civics

    Nancy Pelosi on Looking to Eleanor Roosevelt for Hope

    By Nancy Pelosi  November 5, 2019
    The Hub

    Read this great historical profile of one of Kansas City’s first black-owned bookstores, The Hub!

    By Jonny Diamond  November 4, 2019
    Art History

    Alan Moore on William Blake and the Supernatural Poetry of Place

    By Alan Moore  November 4, 2019
    Publishing

    Inside France’s Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka ‘Oscar Season For Books’

    By Clémentine Goldszal  November 4, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Displacement Generation: On Homesickness and the Millennial Memoir

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  November 4, 2019
    Philosophy

    Philip Goff and Philip Pullman Talk Materialism, Panpsychism, and Philosophical Zombies

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2019
    Books

    How to Haul a Book Collection Across an Ocean

    By Connor Harrison  November 4, 2019
    Social Media

    How Ghost Stories Spread in the Era of Social Media

    By Sarah Rose Cavanagh  November 4, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    Care and Abuse: Lessons of a
    Motherly Daughter

    By Danielle Batalion Ola  November 4, 2019
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