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    The Issues: 2024

    The 10 Best Books on Reproductive Rights

    By Catherine Habgood  October 30, 2024
    Gaza

    A Letter Supporting Six Honorable Journalists in Northern Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher and Alice Wong  October 29, 2024
    Sports

    Nazem Kadri on Becoming a Brown Muslim Hockey Star in a Very White Sport

    By Nazem Kadri  October 28, 2024
    Gaza

    Thousands of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions

    By Dan Sheehan  October 28, 2024
    On Race

    Why America Is Stuck in a Groundhog Day of Racial Trauma

    By Anthony Walton  October 28, 2024
    America

    What the Fourth of July Reveals About the Unfulfilled Promise of America

    By Theodore Johnson  October 28, 2024
    The Hub

    A sex-work-positive reading list, inspired by Anora .

    By Brittany Allen  October 25, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 25, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    Their Cold, Dead Hands: Is the Only Solution to America’s Gun Problem at the Local Level?

    By Alex Trimble Young  October 25, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    10 Best Books on Guns in America

    By Catherine Habgood  October 25, 2024
    Disinformation

    Big Lies Need Even Bigger Fact Checking

    By Maris Kreizman  October 24, 2024
    American Politics

    What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public

    By Bill Adair  October 23, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Jason Reynolds on Subverting Masculinity

    By Talk Easy  October 23, 2024
    The Hub

    On the enduring popularity—and appropriation—of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

    By Brittany Allen  October 22, 2024
    Disability

    The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

    By Liz Jackson  October 22, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”

    By Elif Shafak  October 22, 2024
    Cundill History Prize

    Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History

    By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 21, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 18, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System

    By Literary Hub  October 18, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    We Can’t Rely on Drug Companies to Keep Insulin Prices Low

    By Maris Kreizman  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
    American Empire

    Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

    By Noam Chomsky  October 16, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s why Han Kang is refusing to celebrate her Nobel Prize.

    By Brittany Allen  October 15, 2024
    The Hub

    Arundhati Roy is “unflinching” about genocide in her powerful PEN award acceptance speech.

    By Brittany Allen  October 15, 2024
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