• News and Culture

    Essay

    It Costs $55 to Learn How to Bend a Spoon with Your Mind

    By Daryl Gregory  June 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

    By Silas Dent Zobal  June 27, 2017
    Q and A

    When a Bookseller Tries to Buy a Bookstore

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Food, Family, and Fairy Tale Horror

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 27, 2017
    Where to Go

    The Rise of Women-Only Literary Spaces, UK Edition

    By Thea Hawlin  June 26, 2017
    Essay

    Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 26, 2017
    Film

    Is Watchmen Coming to TV?

    By Emily Temple  June 23, 2017
    Politics

    Plum Sykes: You Know It’s Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

    By Plum Sykes  June 23, 2017
    Essay

    Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

    By Dave Boling  June 23, 2017
    Events

    An American Bookseller Reports from a Glamorous Italian Bookfair

    By Jenn Witte  June 23, 2017
    Excerpts

    Field Notes From My Dementia

    By Gerda Saunders  June 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    No Frills

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 22, 2017
    Politics

    How Did America’s Banks Get So Much Political Power?

    By Isaac Kaplan  June 22, 2017
    Poets

    Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World’s First Poet?

    By Charles Halton  June 22, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Prodigy, a Fiercely Independent Artist

    By Ibrahim Ahmad  June 22, 2017
    What to Read

    9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

    By Ed Simon  June 21, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

    By Katie McBride  June 21, 2017
    Politics

    Measuring the Decline of America’s First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

    By Lawrence Lenhart  June 20, 2017
    Close Reading

    Forrest Trump: On the Donald’s Many Cameos in American Literature

    By Susan Rieger  June 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

    By Joel Dinerstein  June 19, 2017
    Design

    Nancy Mitford, Inventor of Eccentric English Style

    By Terry Newman  June 19, 2017
    Memoir

    Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

    By Sabrina Toppa  June 19, 2017
    Feature

    Two Decades of Reading Beside the Woman I Love

    By Matthew Sullivan  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    After Not Finishing a Book in 35 Years, How My Father Became a Reader

    By Mariya Karimjee  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Running Towards My Father

    By Devin Kelly  June 16, 2017
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