• Travel

    The Arctic

    Before It’s Too Late: Crossing the Northwest Passage in the Era of Climate Change

    Mark Synnott on the Logistical, Environmental and Emotional Preparations For a Journey Through the Arctic

     
    By Mark Synnott  April 18, 2025
    The Hub

    All the literary adaptations at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

    By Brittany Allen  February 3, 2025
    The Hub

    Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.

    By Brittany Allen  January 21, 2025
    Culinary History

    Sweet Yet Versatile: In Praise of the Magnificent Melon

    By Caroline Eden  January 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Say hello to your new favorite holiday—Plough Monday!

    By Brittany Allen  January 6, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.

    By Brittany Allen  December 16, 2024
    Food Writing

    Learning to Make the World’s Rarest Pasta

    By Eliot Stein  December 11, 2024
    The Hub

    Bernardine Evaristo is letting writers crash at her house for free.

    By Brittany Allen  October 25, 2024
    TV

    How Are the Books in The White Lotus Chosen? Meet the Man Who Picks Them

    Brittany K. Allen Talks to Props Master Michael Cory

    By Brittany Allen  March 14, 2025
    Exploration

    Himilco, Hanno, Faxian… And Other Early World Explorers Who Should Be More Famous

    By Matthew Lockwood  October 21, 2024
    Traveling

    The Original Eurotrip: How the Grand Tour Shaped Generations of 19th-Century Elites

    By Steve Burgess  October 18, 2024
    Grants

    To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

    By Marian Crotty  October 17, 2024
    The Hub

    Little Free Library has a new map to help places hit hardest by book bans.

    By James Folta  September 5, 2024
    The Hub

    The coolest bookstore bars in America.

    By Brittany Allen  August 16, 2024
    Road Trips

    A Literary Road Trip Across America

    By Literary Hub  August 14, 2024
    Protest

    When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

    By Nathan Deuel  August 9, 2024
    Twitterverse

    10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

    By Brittany Allen  August 2, 2024
    Travel fiction

    Vacation Mode: On the Literary Relationship Between Travel and Madness

    By Kate Preziosi  July 24, 2024
    The Hub

    How to pick the perfect book to read on a plane.

    By James Folta  July 11, 2024
    Expatriates

    What Happens When an American Family Moves To a Tiny French Village?

    By Steve Hoffman  July 10, 2024
    On Race

    Support One Moment, Racism the Next: On Being a Black Nigerian Man in America

    Samuel Kọláwọlé Recounts His Painful Entry Into the United States

    By Samuel Kóláwólé  July 3, 2024
    Traveling

    How Lonely Planet Founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler Revolutionized the Way We Travel

    By Paige McClanahan  June 21, 2024
    Languages

    Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

    By Priyanka Mattoo  June 18, 2024
    Recipes

    Heavenly Paella: Exploring a Unique Monastic Culinary Culture in the Mountains of Catalonia

    By Jody Eddy  October 21, 2024
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