• News and Culture

    Design

    The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

    By Emily Temple  December 29, 2018
    Feature

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2018

    By Emily Temple  December 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Happened to Nicolás Maduro’s “Socialism”?

    By Mike Gonzalez  December 21, 2018
    Feature

    Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 5 to 1

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2018
    A Free Press

    Margaret Atwood: If We Lose the Free Press, We Cease to Be a Democracy

    By Margaret Atwood  December 20, 2018
    Conversations

    Whose Streets? A Conversation About Walking

    By John Freeman  December 20, 2018
    Affection

    Why Do We Hug Each Other?

    By Haemin Sunim  December 20, 2018
    Biography

    “Luminous Traitor”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 20, 2018
    Essay

    The Temptations of Playing the Muse

    By Samantha Silva  December 19, 2018
    Feature

    15 Perfect Gifts for 15 Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  December 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    Making Dad Jokes is, in Fact, a Neurological Condition

    By James Geary  December 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    Scholastique Mukasonga on the Power and Privilege in a Loaf of Bread

    By Scholastique Mukasonga  December 18, 2018
    Biography

    Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s Gay Underground

    By Mark Dery  December 17, 2018
    Feature

    Your 2019 Literary Adaptation Preview

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2018
    Feature

    What Did You Read This Year That You Loved?

    By John Freeman  December 17, 2018
    Feature

    The Day the Llamas Came to the Bookstore

    By James Tate Hill  December 17, 2018
    Excerpts

    Did Lao-Tzu and Confucius Know Each Other?

    By John Minford  December 17, 2018
    History

    It’s Been 25 Years Since Kurt Cobain’s Last Rites, Nirvana’s Unplugged Show

    By Lynn Crosbie  December 14, 2018
    Feature

    Rabih Alameddine: The Novels I Loved This Year

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 14, 2018
    Archives

    Read From Allen Ginsberg’s Cuba Journals

    By Allen Ginsberg  December 14, 2018
    Feature

    William Kentridge’s Provisional Memory, Provisional Words

    By William Kentridge  December 14, 2018
    End of Year Lists

    Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of the Year: 10 to 5

    By Literary Hub  December 14, 2018
    News

    Tin House Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Issue Will Be Its Last

    By Literary Hub  December 13, 2018
    Feature

    How Do You Photograph the Wind?

    By Lit Hub Photography  December 13, 2018
    End of Year Lists

    Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 20 to 11

    By Literary Hub  December 13, 2018
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