August 11 – 15, 2025
- Joshua Bennett writes an elegy to Nikki Giovanni
- Jennifer Zacharia reports on the murder of Anas al-Sharif
- How Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny took over TikTok
Support Lit Hub.
Why American Teachers’ Unions Are So Powerful
Michael T. Hartney in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears
Amanda Parrish Morgan on Maternal Idealization and Inadequacy
How Republicans Weaponized Lies to Incite Their Followers
Robert Draper on What Was Behind the January 6 Insurrection
“Elves Live Here.” On Modern Icelandic Elflore and the Shades of Belief
Nancy Marie Brown Considers the Stories Surrounding the Country’s “Hidden Folk”
“A Solemn Battle between Good and Evil.” Charles Sumner’s Radical, Compelling Message of Abolition
Timothy Shenk on the Senator from Massachusetts and the Birth of the Republican Party
The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
“The poem is such a key landmark that all modern poets know it, whether they swerve around it, crash into it, or attempt to assimilate it.”
A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)
“What each map always implies is the observer, you.”
On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo
Kristina R. Gaddy on the Instrument’s Spiritual and Cultural Significance
How T.S. Eliot’s Therapeutic Practice Produced The Waste Land
David Barnes on a Poet, His Doctor, and the Making of a Literary Masterpiece
Lan Samantha Chang on How—or Whether—to Evolve Your Aesthetic or Style
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
“You Find a Way to Be Distinctive.” George Saunders on His Writerly Evolution
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
How Modern is The Waste Land, After All?
“What could be cooler than the harmony between two great artists born in two different centuries and half a world apart?”
Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?
Ann Hood in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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