August 22, 2025
- A mysterious fast food whodunnit
- The evolution of the library
- Grace Byron’s obsession with horseshoe crabs
Support Lit Hub.
Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class
“Poems don’t have to self-flagellate to be meaningful. That seems very Puritanical. Too American.”
“This is Such Bullshit.” Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
It’s a Man’s Art World: The Centuries-Long Struggle of the Leading Lady in Rocco and His Brothers
Laura Valenza on How Women in Italian Modern Art Become Symbolic of National Crisis
How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America
Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Andrew Keen
On Domesticity and Memory in James Baldwin and Becky Suss
Peter L’Official on Suss’s “Brand of Children’s Vision for Adults”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Hilton Als on Thom Gunn, Ben Ehrenreich on Barry Lopez, Laura Miller on Kellyanne Conway, and more
How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings
Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés
How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery
David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking
Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”
This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast
On Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood
Malwina Gudowska: “Language, like motherhood, lives on the body.”
“The Díaz Administration Is a Den of Thieves.” Political Activism in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico
Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Road to Revolution
Jean Hanff Korelitz on Being Allowed to Make Things Up
Also, an Enthusiastic Plug for the Hill Cumorah Pageant
In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims
Former Federal Prosecutor Valena Beety on the War on Drugs
Julia Serano on the Ramifications of “Sissy-Shaming” for Kids of All Genders
The Problem with Enforced Emotional Ignorance
What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle
Hopwood DePree in Conversation with Andrew Keen
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