Editor's Note: Literary Community in a Time of Global Pandemic

Editor's Note: Literary Community in a Time of Global Pandemic

Lit Hub Editor Jonny Diamond on Art in a Time of Crisis

By Jonny Diamond | March 16, 2020

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

Ysabelle Cheung on Coronavirus, Hong Kong, and Fragmentation

By Ysabelle Cheung | March 16, 2020

Stay Home, They Told Us... Diary of an Italian Editor

Stay Home, They Told Us... Diary of an Italian Editor

Sara Reggiani on Life in Quarantine

By Sara Reggiani | March 16, 2020

The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

Helen Taylor on Books That Truly Embrace Female Autonomy and Desire

By Helen Taylor | March 16, 2020

Gerald Posner: 6 Lessons From Decades of Investigative Reporting

Gerald Posner: 6 Lessons From Decades of Investigative Reporting

On FOIA, Difficult Sourcing, and In-Person Interviews

By Gerald Posner | March 16, 2020

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

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Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

By Monique Truong | March 16, 2020

Hold on to your Nebulas: Ken Liu's short stories are coming to TV.

By Dan Sheehan | March 13, 2020

Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

By Marjan Kamali | March 13, 2020

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's <em>The Plague</em>

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's The Plague

Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition

By Liesl Schillinger | March 13, 2020

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

By Alireza Doostdar | March 13, 2020

Finding Octavia Butler's Pasadena

Finding Octavia Butler's Pasadena

Katie Orphan Traces the Late Author Through Her Papers

By Katie Orphan | March 13, 2020

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

D.J. Taylor on Cyril Connolly Shepherd of "High Brow" Literature

By D.J. Taylor | March 13, 2020

On the Harrowing Life of a Boko Haram Captive

On the Harrowing Life of a Boko Haram Captive

Dionne Searcey Learns the Story of a Survivor

By Dionne Searcey | March 13, 2020

Does Retirement Hurt, Rather Than Help, the Aging Process?

Does Retirement Hurt, Rather Than Help, the Aging Process?

Camilla Cavendish on the Japanese Approach to Senior Work

By Camilla Cavendish | March 13, 2020

Here are the National Book Critics Circle Award winners!

Here are the National Book Critics Circle Award winners!

By Katie Yee | March 12, 2020

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