September 22, 2025
- Why dictators are terrified of comedy
- Trump is suing Penguin Random House for $15 billion
- An interview with Sheila Heti
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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
‘We Need You to Be a Zealot.’ My Life in Scientology
“The whole agonized future of this planet depend on what you do here."
Remembering Stephen Hawking: Poet, Astrophysicist, Rock Star
With Brandon Taylor, Gabrielle Bellot, and Veronica Scott Esposito
What It’s Like to Travel With a Guide Dog
Stephen Kuusisto on Becoming a Sacred/Profane Wandering Totem
How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany
Gerald Weissmann on the Nativist US Immigration Policies of the 1930s
Navigating an Author-Reader Relationship as Father and Son
Bruce and Jackson Holbert on Their Family, Poetry, and Pleasing Editors
“Birds of Paradise”
Rania Mamoun, Trans. by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
“The little girl’s laughter jars on my ears. I turn to look at her. She dashes through the airport lounge, brandishing her doll with a buoyancy unsuited to the time of day.”
The Eight Mountains
Paolo Cognetti, Trans. by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
“My father had his own way of going to the mountains: scarcely inclined to meditation, full of obstinacy and arrogance.”
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