Down and Out with Warren Zevon in LA
One of the Greatest Singer-Songwriters in America Almost Wasn’t
Facing US By Amanda Johnston
Part Two of the American Academy of Poets Weeklong Poetry & the Body Series
“The Nightingale That Speaks”
Najla Jraissaty Khoury, Trans. by Inea Bushnaq
“Long ago, in a former age and a bygone time, there was a king who wished to test the loyalty of his people. He issued a command that for one night no light must show in any part of the city.”
Elegy in Translation by Meg Day
Part I of the American Academy of Poets Weeklong Poetry & the Body Series
The Life to Come
Michelle de Kretser
“The house by the river belonged to an old man whose relationship to George Meshaw was complicated but easily covered by 'cousin.' He had lived there alone, with a painting that was probably a Bonnard.”
How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity
Glorifying Disaster in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End
From the Pages of The New Yorker to the Streets of New York
Why Don’t We Eat (More) Brains?
From Cannibals to Mario Batali, A Brief History of Eating Gray Matter
In Which Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin Discuss Carson McCullers (and More)
From the Correspondence of "Jay" and "10"
Gambling with My Grandmother: From the Philippines to America
"The Odds are Against Us, but That’s Never Stopped us from Betting."
Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
Featuring Murderous Teens, March Madness, the Erin Express, and more
Lacking Character
Curtis White
“What follows is a story of contagion, and it begins, as all such stories must, with a message both obscure and appalling.”
Alain Locke’s Controversial Vision of a “Negro Renaissance”
On the Fallout from His Battle Against Entrenched Paternalism
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