September 8 – 12, 2025
- The transgressive legacy of Christopher Marlowe
- The professional costs of criticizing the Trump administration
- On the presence of ICE in Harlan County, Kentucky
Support Lit Hub.
Enchanted Islands
Allison Amend
“You’re not allowed to read this—I’m not even really allowed to write it. But now that Ainslie is gone and I will surely follow before too long, I don’t see that much is the harm. I suppose the government will censor what it will.”
A Literary Folk Hero is Born: The Tale of Merrijoy and the Empty Chairs
Matthew Norman Talks to the One Person At His Reading, Merrijoy Vicente
In Search of Obscure Words for Even Rarer Feelings
The More Emotions We Can Name, The Better Off We'll Be
On Machines That Shit, and Fictional Characters That Do Not
Benjamin Hale Considers Cloaca, Orpheus, and Pooping
Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison
Mikita Brottman on the Jessup Correctional Institution Book Club
The Night Cassius Clay Beat Sonny Liston
From Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Anatomy of a Soldier
Harry Parker
“I am a Camp Cot, Folding. My NSN is 7105-99-383. I was one of the first to arrive at the base. They unloaded me from an ISO container and threw me in a pile with all the others.”
Escaping the Self-Critical Eye for the Sake of My Daughter
Helen Phillips on Body Image, Motherhood, and Owning Your Idiosyncratic Self
Secrets of the Book Designer: Sometimes I Don’t Read the Whole Book
On Capturing Fragments of a Story, and the Pleasures of the Backlist
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
“Excuse me, miss. Could you tell me where I am?” he asked. He hadn’t spoken to a woman since the day he called Ethe by another woman’s name.
On Writing Islamic Identity and Being Labeled a Political Writer
A Conversation Between Leila Aboulela and Elnathan John
Page 1767 of 1875
