August 26, 2025
- The scame of ’luxury’ writing retreats
- The bewildering world of celebrity children’s book
- Nick Sturm remembers Alice Notley
Support Lit Hub.
On How New Yorkers Turned to Poetry After 9/11
Dennis Johnson: “As word circulated through the poetry community the project began to snowball.”
“I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane
Samuel Moyn Considers Prince Andrei, Carl von Clausewitz, and the Rules of War
The Unavoidable Trap of Politeness: Why Is It So Hard to Just Say “No”?
Vanessa Bohns on the Psychology Behind Our Unbearable Fear of Social Embarrassment
9/11 and Everything After: On Bearing Witness to History Through the Eyes of My Daughter
Sasha Sagan Considers the Sea-Change of Our News Cycle, and What Empathy Means
“You’re Food and Drink to Me.” A Letter From Henry Miller to Anais Nin
A Steamy Excerpt of the Literary Couple’s Correspondence
S. Qiouyi Lu on Surveillance Technology, Experimental Narratives, and Neopronouns
In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast
From the Fall of the Towers to Building Anew
Joe Woolhead on Documenting the Chaos of 9/11 and Later Efforts to Rebuild
Assimilation and Erasure: How Imposter Syndrome Traps People of Color
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez on the Inherent White Supremacy of Ivory Towers
Remembering the Marine Workers Who Ferried New Yorkers to Safety on 9/11
Jessica DuLong on Making History in New York Harbor
How the History of German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers During WWII Shaped My Novel
Ellen Feldman on the Fascinating Story of the Ritchie Boys
The Three Women of Bronzeville: On Finding Safety in My Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt
Dawn Turner Chronicles Her Sprawling Family History and Growing Up on the South Side of Chicago
Les Standiford on Why the Circus Is Key to Understanding Who We Are
In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, Read by Saskia Maarleveld
A Paean to the Majesty of Wolves
Page 809 of 1867
