• Politics

    Excerpts

    How Forgotten Trailblazer Marjorie Hillis Helped Women Live Alone

    By Joanna Scutts  November 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

    By Kristian Williams  November 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    Dan Rather: In Search of What Unites Us from 35,000 Feet

    By Dan Rather  November 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    Capitalism or Fascism: Which Has Shaped Italy More?

    By Umberto Eco  November 15, 2017
    Essay

    Rebecca Solnit: Let This Flood of Women’s Stories Never Cease

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 14, 2017
    Essay

    The First Time I Saw Ice Was in the Jungle

    By Aminatta Forna  November 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    Why Insidious Racism is Much Harder to Navigate

    By Reni Eddo-Lodge  November 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Sometimes, It’s Okay to Be Mean

    By Myriam Gurba  November 10, 2017
    Essay

    Soldiers Are More Than Just Symbols

    By David Abrams  November 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Ugandan Reporter Shedding Light on the Lives of Missing Children

    By Jessica Yu  November 8, 2017
    Biography

    The Women Who Shaped Vladimir Lenin

    By Victor Sebestyen  November 7, 2017
    Feature

    I Delivered Donald Trump’s 2007 Tax Returns

    By Henry Kogan  November 6, 2017
    Feature

    Lit Hub Staff: The Best Essays We Published in Response to Donald Trump

    By Literary Hub  November 6, 2017
    Essay

    Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content

    By Barret Baumgart  November 6, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

    By Martin Puchner  November 2, 2017
    News and Culture

    10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict

    By Ian Black  November 2, 2017
    Excerpts

    Muhammad Ali, Author of “The Greatest Book of All Time”?

    By Jonathan Eig  November 1, 2017
    Essay

    To the Lady Who Mistook Me for the Help at the National Book Awards

    By Patrick Rosal  November 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    Against the “Melting Pot” Metaphor

    By Mike Wallace  October 30, 2017
    Non-fiction

    Science vs. Religion: Travels in the Great American Divide

    By Dinty W. Moore  October 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    Uncovering the History of Slavery in Detroit

    By Tiya Miles  October 27, 2017
    Feature

    8 Delusions of Western Democracy We Could Do Without

    By Erica Benner  October 26, 2017
    Close Reading

    How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

    By Veronica Esposito  October 23, 2017
    Essay

    The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly

    By Philip Caputo  October 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    What Does Resistance Look Like in the Face of Extremism?

    By Alexis Okeowo  October 12, 2017
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