Boston

A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

Tess Chakkalakal on the Unlikely Literary Partnership Between Charles W. Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page

 
By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
Doctors

How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

By Lydia Reeder  December 9, 2024
Homesickness

Between Two Cities: Shubha Sunder on Finding a Place in Fiction

By Shubha Sunder  April 27, 2023
Feminist History

A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

By Emily Franklin  April 13, 2023
American History

After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

By Jacqueline Jones  January 11, 2023
Open Source

“The First Hurrah of Something Else.” On Boston’s Unprecedented Mayoral Election

By Open Source  November 5, 2021
Queer Identity

If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

By Jennifer Finney Boylan  September 13, 2021
African American Literature

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

By Shanna Greene Benjamin  April 12, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

Bridged: How the Art of Writing Can Close the Divide Between Worlds

By Jennifer De Leon  March 29, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Book Tour in the Early Days
of Coronavirus

By Gabriel Bump  April 23, 2020
Baseball

Babe Ruth and the Moment American Baseball Changed Forever

By Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith  March 23, 2020
The Hub

Someone stole a six-foot pencil from the Gloucester Writers’ Center, Ben Affleck options film rights, probably.

By Jonny Diamond  March 6, 2020
American History

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

By Serena Zabin  February 20, 2020
News and Culture

The True Tales of a
Literary Bartender

By Erika Mailman  December 3, 2019
Interview with a Bookstore

The Boston Bookstore with a Focus on Writers of Color

By Interview with a Bookstore  May 21, 2019
Essay

Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

By Thomas E. Ricks  March 18, 2019
Conversations

What Trauma Leaves Behind

By Carley Moore  March 15, 2019
Essay

Living at Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’ “Poetical” Boston Address

By Jessica Vestuto  January 8, 2019
Excerpts

The Onstage Origins of Van Morrison’s Legendary Astral Weeks

By Ryan H. Walsh  March 7, 2018
Essay

On the Pain of Being a Secret High School Geek (and Sometime Freak)

By Sam Graham-Felsen  January 3, 2018
Essay

Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

By Sven Birkerts  November 22, 2017
Feature

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

By Oset Babur  October 25, 2017
Conversations

About Suffering, Robert Lowell Was Never Wrong

By Literary Hub  May 18, 2017
Conversations

Fanny Howe on Race, Family, and the Line Between Fiction and Poetry

By Literary Hub  November 1, 2016
Essay

Ha Jin on the Long Reach of the Chinese Government

By Dylan Foley  October 25, 2016
Essay

When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece

By Jeff Sharlet  February 4, 2016
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