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    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    Daniel Brook on Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld a Queer Pioneer of the Study of Human Sexuality

     
    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    In a new lawsuit, the Authors Guild is going toe to toe with DOGE.

    By Brittany Allen  May 13, 2025
    Consumerism

    Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls

    By Alissa Quart  May 12, 2025
    Transphobia

    How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

    By Tracy Slater  May 12, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.

    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what to do if your NEA grant has been terminated.

    By Brittany Allen  May 9, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    Alex Foster on What Draws Us to Doomsday Fantasies, and Why We Should Resist the Urge to Indulge Them

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Indigenous Lit

    An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers

    By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  May 8, 2025
    Publishing

    On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

    By Maris Kreizman  May 8, 2025
    Irish History

    An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

    By Padraic X. Scanlan  May 7, 2025
    Writing Communities

    Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

    “It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

    By Rosa Castellano  May 7, 2025
    Entertainment

    How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

    By Eunji Kim  May 7, 2025
    Globalization

    What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

    By Ian Kumekawa  May 6, 2025
    craft advice

    I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

    By Kevin Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Trump’s NEA is terminating hundreds of grants in literature, theater, and the arts.

    By James Folta  May 5, 2025
    Law

    Why the Legal Profession Needs to Resist Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Intimidation Tactics

    By Aron Solomon  May 5, 2025
    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    The Hub

    A brief literary history of May Day.

    By Brittany Allen  May 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

    By Jonny Diamond  May 1, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

    By Zoe Roth  April 30, 2025
    Science fiction

    Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

    By Tobias Carroll  April 30, 2025
    Catholicism

    You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

    By Aron Solomon  May 9, 2025
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