• News and Culture

    Disneyland

    Disneyland Hasn’t Always Been the Happiest Place on Earth

    By Richard Snow  December 12, 2019
    Education

    The American Universities That Took in Scholars from Nazi Europe

    By Laurel Leff  December 12, 2019
    Cookbooks

    The 10 Best Cookbooks of the Year (Which Would Also Make Great Gifts)

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 12, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Baz Luhrmann is adapting The Master and Margarita for the big screen.

    By Emily Temple  December 11, 2019
    The Hub

    De’Shawn Charles Winslow wins 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 11, 2019
    The Hub

    Here’s how to livestream Margaret Atwood’s birthday party.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 11, 2019
    Anthropology

    In Search of Treasure in London’s
    Riverine Mud

    By Lara Maiklem  December 11, 2019
    Travel

    A Brief Contemporary History of Nairobi’s Literary House Parties

    By Carey Baraka  December 11, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    How Cleanliness and Beauty Became Intertwined
    in the 18th Century

    By Peter Ward  December 11, 2019
    Biography

    The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

    By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
    On Poetry

    The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom

    By Julie Dobrow  December 11, 2019
    Nature Writing

    How to Write with Optimism About Nature
    (in a Time of Disaster)

    By Tobias Carroll  December 11, 2019
    Celebrities

    Body Language: On Kylie Minogue, Cancer, and Coming Back to Life

    By Oliver Reeson  December 11, 2019
    Jazz

    On the Sacred Bard of the 1960s Chicago Jazz Scene

    By Thulani Davis  December 11, 2019
    The Hub

    It’s a Chrismukkah miracle: The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is finally getting adapted.

    By Corinne Segal  December 10, 2019
    The Hub

    Announcing the line-up for this year’s Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City.

    By Literary Hub  December 10, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the new books you should be reading this week.

    By Katie Yee  December 10, 2019
    The Hub

    With more people searching for it than ever, “they” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year.

    By Corinne Segal  December 10, 2019
    The Hub

    Reminder: Boris Johnson wrote a racist novel in 2004.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 10, 2019
    Jane Austen

    Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

    By Hilary Davidson  December 10, 2019
    Literary Long Weekends

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Chicago

    By Lynn Haller  December 10, 2019
    Drugs

    The Hypocrisy of Big Business’ Relationship to Cannabis

    By Lauren Michele Jackson  December 10, 2019
    The Cold War

    How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

    By Paul Scraton  December 10, 2019
    The Best of the Decade

    The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations
    of the Decade

    By Emily Temple  December 10, 2019
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