• Politics

    Free Speech

    On the Courage of Nan Goldin and the Truth About Germany’s “Never Again Is Now” Resolution

    Germany’s Resolution on Antisemitism Is More About Soothing a Nation’s Conscience Than Protecting “Jewish Life”

     
    By A.J. Goldmann  January 15, 2025
    The Hub

    At this year’s MLA convention, protestors put Palestine on the docket.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    What to Watch

    Defying Empire: On the Perennially Relevant Political Message of Wicked

    By Aaron Boehmer  January 13, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Class

    My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  January 10, 2025
    On Race

    How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

    By Mary Frances Phillips  January 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Literature and Politics

    He Got Away With Everything: Reading True Grit After the Reelection of Donald Trump

    By Piers Gelly  January 10, 2025
    Gaza

    Why is Pamela Paul writing about scholasticide? Do better, New York Times.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 9, 2025
    Social Media

    Even Elon Musk Can’t Bring Down Black Twitter

    By Meredith D. Clark  January 9, 2025
    Segregation

    Beyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lines

    Michelle Adams on the Ongoing Legal Struggle For Educational and Racial Equality Across the United States

    By Michelle Adams  January 15, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

    By Brittany Allen  January 8, 2025
    On Race

    Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America’s Criminal Justice System

    By Irvin Weathersby Jr.  January 8, 2025
    literary criticism

    Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

    By Lauren Groff  January 7, 2025
    The Hub

    In an overwhelming vote, the American Historical Association voted to condemn scholasticide in Gaza.

    By Brittany Allen  January 6, 2025
    Activism

    The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

    By Julie Phillips  January 3, 2025
    Gardening

    Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
    Publishing

    Fighting for Book Workers’ Rights, Battling Book Bans, and Other Literary Resolutions For 2025

    By Maris Kreizman  January 2, 2025
    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 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

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    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 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

    “Now is surely the time to stand up to unjustifiable censorship and retaliation.”

    By Literary Hub  December 18, 2024
    Gaza

    Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    Fascism

    How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    On Race

    Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

    By Naomi Day  January 9, 2025
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