• Politics

    On Race

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

    Mary Frances Phillips on John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the Complex History of an Oft-Misunderstood Political Movement

     
    By Mary Frances Phillips  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
    On Race

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

    By Naomi Day  January 9, 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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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
    Literature and Politics

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

    Piers Gelly Considers Charles Portis’s Masterpiece in the Long Shadow of 2016

    By Piers Gelly  January 10, 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

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

    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

    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

    Ed Simon on the Enduring Political Relevance of Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    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
    Gaza

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

    “Some of us became teachers of literature because we believe it helps keep us human, even in a world of genocide.”

    By Literary Hub  December 12, 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
    Gardening

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

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
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