August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
Support Lit Hub.
Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women’s Dead End Work
In Conversation with Andrew Keen
An Ode to Memory and Place: Readings by Brian Alan Ellis, Grant Faulkner, and Erin Calabria
From Micro, a Podcast for Short But Powerful Writing
On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe
Steven Toussaint Considers the Melding of Ambivalence and Political Commitment
Ada Limón on Why Being Witnessed Is Essential For an Artist
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”
“It was from the outset a blackface minstrel tune, entertainment built on slavery and the trade in human beings.”
On the Power and Purpose of Historical Fiction
A Conversation Between Eva Stachniak and Christina Baker Kline
Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton
Hilary A. Hallett on Reclaiming “Trashy” Romances
On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father
Rachel M. Harper: “I was a fellow worshipper, a member of the tribe; his daughter.”
The Significance of Romare Bearden’s Art in the American Canon
Glenda Gilmore in Conversation with Andrew Keen
Shelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at South Main Book Company
Owner Alissa Redmond Shares Her Favorites
A Mysterious Canoe, a Flip Phone, and a Lot of Unanswered Questions
Ben McGrath on Tells the Tale of an American Odyssey
Are We At the End of (the) History (of Liberalism)?
Francis Fukuyama in Conversation with Andrew Keen
Singer Sam Lee on the Transformative Experience of Creating Songs in Collaboration With Nightingales
On the Emergence Magazine Podcast
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