Red, White, Blue
Lea Carpenter
"There’s terrorism and there’s long-term strategic interests. Some might say fighting terrorists is a clearer game, with a more immediately identifiable set of risks and rewards. Others will argue espionage in essence is about the long-range, about understanding enemies operating on a different clock."
Why Don’t More Boys Read Little Women?
"Little Women is presumed to be hardly worthy of rescue from
the educational oblivion into which it has fallen."
7 Novels That Capture the Pain and Chaos of Alcoholism
Laura June on Representations of Addiction in Fiction
What We Loved This Week
The Lit Hub Staff on BlacKkKlansman, Deborah Eisenberg,
James Baldwin, and more
We Should All Probably Be Eating Seaweed
How to Make Sugar Kelp Noodles with Garlic and Butter and Mussels
Queer Black Poets Since the Harlem Renaissance: A Reading List
From Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson to Juliana Huxtable
The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail
Janet Hansen on Creating the Cover for Nico Walker's Cherry
Is Atheism the Last Unforgivable Sin of American Politics?
God Isn't Dead, At Least Not in the U.S. of A.
On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster
If a Happy Ending Required Marriage, Forster Was All for Pessimism
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet
Self-Referential, Argumentative, and Never Dispassionate
Sameen Rushdie: “Food is a Way of Crossing Boundaries”
The Author of an Iconic Cookbook in Conversation With Paul Holdengraber
From P.G. Wodehouse to Jane Smiley, 7 Comic Novels You Should Read
Inman Majors on the Books That Make Him Laugh
His Favorites
Kate Walbert
"This is not a story I’ve told before. No one would believe me. I mean, really believe me. They would get that look and nod. They would ask certain questions that suggested I was somehow culpable or that I was making most of it up out of nothing—just girlish fantasies and daydreams."
Vijay Iyer: A Moral Imperative to Speak for the Musical Margins
On Finding an Uneasy Peace with Jazz Traditionalists
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