Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

“First you reverse a river. Then you electrify it.”

By Elizabeth Kolbert | March 9, 2021

How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

Sophie Wilson on the Liberation Looks Inspired by Orlando

By Sophie Wilson | March 9, 2021

50 Very Bad Book Covers for<br> Literary Classics

50 Very Bad Book Covers for
Literary Classics

It could always be worse.

By Emily Temple | March 9, 2021

On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

From White Nationalists to Endangered Tortoises, Michelle Nijhuis Encounters the Modern Wilderness

By Michelle Nijhuis | March 9, 2021

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Robert Zaretsky on the Philosophy of Negative Effort

By Robert Zaretsky | March 9, 2021

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

Donna Florio Remembers Just Another Day on Manhattan's Bank Street

By Donna Florio | March 9, 2021

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Fred Wiseman on the Winning Combination of Luck and Good Judgment

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 9, 2021

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

By Teddy Wayne | March 9, 2021

And Death Shall Have Dominion: Tales of Doctors, Their Patients, and What Comes For Us All

By Theodore Dalrymple | March 9, 2021

Our (Nonexistent) Work-Life Balance Is Hitting Peak Urgency

Our (Nonexistent) Work-Life Balance Is Hitting Peak Urgency

Annie Auerbach in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 9, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Island on Fire</em> by Tom Zoellner

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner

Carlin Romano on One of the Finalists for Nonfiction

By Carlin Romano | March 9, 2021

<em>Under a White Sky</em> by Elizabeth Kolbert, Read by Rebecca Lowman

Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert, Read by Rebecca Lowman

Examining the Future of Our Environment

By Behind the Mic | March 9, 2021

We're finally getting a <em>Kindred</em> adaptation!

We're finally getting a Kindred adaptation!

By Dan Sheehan | March 8, 2021

Take a look inside this rare, self-published Andy Warhol cookbook.

Take a look inside this rare, self-published Andy Warhol cookbook.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

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