July 17, 2025
- When a book is a house
- Close-reads the promises of A.I. commercials
- John J. Lennon on consuming true crime in prison
Support Lit Hub.
Where Are All the Rural Gay Poets?
Bruce Snider on Searching for Poetry that Reflected His Experience
How Loving The Princess Bride Led Me to Buddhism
Ethan Nichtern on the Film He's Seen (At Least) 30 Times
Gangster Nation
Tod Goldberg
“Now Naomi and Michael were exchanging a series of vows that David was pretty sure were cribbed from a pop song.”
Talking Disco and the Disaster Imaginary with Andrew Durbin
"Perhaps Any Great American Novel is a Novel That is About Violence”
Beyond Heroes and Villains: A Deeper Look at the 19th-Century Indian Wars
Peter Cozzens on a History of Violence and Betrayal
To Speak is to Be Misunderstood: On Parenting and Parents
Minna Zallman Proctor Investigates the Pleasure of Not Belonging
Opioids and Refugees: Why Not Poetry?
William Brewer and Javier Zamora on Writing For Damaged Communities
How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research
Devin Murphy on Recording the Memories of the Last WWII Veterans
The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott
“Mr. Costello was a quiet, balding man with a ready grin. Polite and hush-voiced when he spoke to the Sisters, but loud and full of good humor when he called to people on the street.”
Writing Bellow’s Biography While He Was Still Alive
James Atlas on the Dangers of Befriending Your Subject
More than the Beauty or the Heroine
On Books by Julie Buntin and Carolyn Murnick That Complicate a Girlhood Trope
How Much Actual History Do You Need for a Historical Novel?
Hannah Kent on Searching for the Life of Her Main Character
A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father
"Maybe I Could Feel Pity, If Not Grief and Love"
What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?
The Frisson of Political Participation Without the Risk of Genuine Solidarity
The Best Kind of People
Zoe Whittall
“Joan was drying the last dinner plate, about to go wrap Sadie’s birthday presents, but her husband George took the dishtowel from her hand and replaced it with a glass of red wine.”
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