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    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

     
    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2024
    Artists

    “A Writer Who Draws.” On the Life and Creative Legacy of Saul Steinberg

    By Liana Finck  December 18, 2024
    Gaza

    Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote

    By Literary Hub  December 18, 2024
    Gaza

    Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    Fascism

    How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Reporters Without Borders finds that Palestine was the deadliest place in 2024 for journalists.

    By James Folta  December 12, 2024
    Book Bans

    New Jersey fights back in the face of national book-banning.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 12, 2024
    Free Speech

    Peeling The Onion: Did the Infowars Decision Just Kill Satire? 

    By Aron Solomon  December 12, 2024
    Best of 2024

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024

    The Best Writing at the Site This Year, According to the Editors

    By Literary Hub  December 19, 2024
    Moral Panics

    On “White Slavery” and the Roots of the Contemporary Sex Trafficking Panic

    By Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam  December 12, 2024
    Monuments

    Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

    By Brandon Shimoda  December 11, 2024
    Reading Habits

    Luigi is Currently Reading:
    What Can We Really Learn About the UHC CEO’s Alleged Killer Based on the Books He’s Read?

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

    Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

    By Tobias Carroll  December 10, 2024
    The Hub

    Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

    By James Folta  December 9, 2024
    Cultural History

    Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

    By Glenn Adamson  December 6, 2024
    Book Bans

    Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025

    By Brittany Allen  December 4, 2024
    The Hub

    A little treat for Caro-heads: Bryan Cranston reads from The Power Broker.

    By James Folta  December 3, 2024
    AIDS

    On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?

    By Heather McCalden  December 2, 2024
    The Hub

    Fatale is the French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now.

    By James Folta  November 26, 2024
    Palestine

    What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

    By Aaron Boehmer  November 25, 2024
    Palestine

    On the Enduring Importance of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine

    Alexander Durie Talks to Said’s Children and the Publisher of the Newly Reissued Work

    By Alexander Durie  November 25, 2024
    Gaza

    Read Jody Chan’s Boycott
    Giller Speech

    By Literary Hub  November 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Comedy failed us, again.

    By James Folta  November 21, 2024
    Gaza

    A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS

    By Literary Hub  December 12, 2024
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