When Rousseau Advocated for Book-Burning
One of France's Great Philosophers, a Troll Ahead of His Time
Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
Bar Mitzvahs, Oscar Snubs, Key and Peele Marathons, and more
The Time Lou Reed Quit Music to Become a Poet
Listen to His 1971 St. Mark's Reading (Happy Birthday, Lou!)
Song of a Captive Bird
Jasmin Darznik
“June of that year was a month of martyrs and bloody days. In answer to the cries of 'Down with the shah!' and 'Down with imperialism!' the holy city of Qom had been set ablaze.”
15 Books You Should Read This March
Hard Reporting, Memoirs of Belief, New Clarice Lispector, and More
Adrian Tomine’s Bestselling Graphic Novel Might Make You a Little Sad
Read from the Newly Reissued Killing and Dying
City of Exiles: When Mario Vargas Llosa Met Julio Cortázar in Paris
What It Meant to Be a Mid-Century Latin American Writer in Paris
“Anything You Might Want”
Anjali Sachdeva
“Every time Michael told Gina about how he had become her father’s debtor—the old man’s slave, he always said—the story changed a bit.”
The World Might Not Be As Disastrous As We Think It Is
Steven Pinker on the Virulence of Contemporary Pessimism
Is Any Story Too Private to Use In One’s Art?
Rachel Lyon on Repurposing the Prismatic Material of Life and Love
Growing Up with Classic Russian Literature in Rural South India
Deepa Bhasthi on Her Grandfather's Collection of Cheap Soviet-Era Editions
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