• News and Culture

    #MeToo

    What Can a Hashtag Do?

    By Elizabeth Losh  October 4, 2019
    Nature Writing

    Wear Your Stillness As Disguise: On Sitting Still in Nature

    By Simon Barnes  October 4, 2019
    Climate Change

    Why Do We Refuse to Believe Climate Change is Happening?

    By Jonathan Safran Foer  October 4, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Archives

    The Author Who Didn’t Care to Be Remembered

    By Jean-Christophe Cloutier  October 4, 2019
    Anger

    From the Unabomber to the Incels: Angry Young Men on Campus

    By Eileen Pollack  October 4, 2019
    The Hub

    Read up on the radical, life-affirming history of LGBTQ bookstores.

    By Corinne Segal  October 3, 2019
    The Hub

    National Enquirer editor threatens to sue booksellers over Ronan Farrow book.

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Will everyone in Chicago please bring their books back to the library now?

    By Corinne Segal  October 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of this year’s $40k Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants.

    By Literary Hub  October 3, 2019
    Capitalism

    Inside the Daily Horrors of
    a Factory Farm

    By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo  October 3, 2019
    Ecology

    The Crisis Beneath Our Feet:
    On the Destruction of Soil

    By Isabella Tree  October 3, 2019
    AI

    Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To?

    By Flynn Coleman  October 3, 2019
    Origin Stories

    To the Manor Born: On the Rise of Fred C. Trump, Homebuilder

    By Thomas J. Campanella  October 3, 2019
    Dance

    Jerome Robbins: Letters From a Young Artist Trying to Make It In New York

    By Jerome Robbins  October 3, 2019
    African Literature

    On a Progressive Platform for New African Literature

    By Anne-christine d’Adesky  October 3, 2019
    Poems

    ‘Columbine,’ A Poem by Javier Zamora

    By Javier Zamora  October 3, 2019
    The Hub

    PSA: Jim Carrey is writing a novel.

    By Katie Yee  October 2, 2019
    #MeToo

    Lacy Johnson: Men in Power and the
    Lies They Tell

    By Lacy M. Johnson  October 2, 2019
    Literary History

    Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

    By Lev Grossman  October 2, 2019
    The Labor Movement

    On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

    By Stephen Harrigan  October 2, 2019
    Probability

    Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

    By Ian Stewart  October 2, 2019
    What to Read

    12 Books You Should Read
    This October

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge

    By Interview with a Bookstore  October 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award.

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  October 1, 2019
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