Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A Century of Greatness: The Best African American Literary Anthologies

Kenton Rambsy Recommends the Best Black Writing

 
By Kenton Rambsy  April 11, 2022
Daily Fiction

When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2021
Influences

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

By Louis Chude-Sokei  August 2, 2021
Death

When Your Therapist Needs a Therapist

By Adam Stern, MD  July 22, 2021
Daily Fiction

In.

By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 9, 2021
Food Critics

Audacity, Elegance, and the Vulgarity of Garlic: On My Dinner with Giorgio Armani

By Alexander Lobrano  June 7, 2021
Language

Does a Color Exist If We Don’t Have a Name For It?

By Adam Rogers  May 21, 2021
Daily Fiction

Yes, Daddy

By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 21, 2021
Boyhood

How to Be Cool: On the Societal Expectations Placed on Black Boys vs. White Boys

By Brian Broome  May 18, 2021
Parents

Life in Wonderland: On Growing Up in My Parents’ Cannabis Bakery

By Alia Volz  April 20, 2021
The Hub

HarperCollins will acquire the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $349 million.

By Walker Caplan  March 29, 2021
Memory

Our Memories, Ourselves: On Getting an Unexpected Note from a Childhood Bully

By Sofia Lundberg  March 22, 2021
Civil Rights

The Story of Pan Am’s First
Black Stewardesses

By Julia Cooke  March 2, 2021
Daily Fiction

The Bone Fire

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 25, 2021
The Holocaust

To Catch a Killer: Uncovering the Massacre of a Jewish Family in
Nazi Europe

By Wendy Lower  February 16, 2021
Blackness

On the Many Meanings of
Black Diaspora

By Louis Chude-Sokei  February 3, 2021
Sustainability

Mark Bittman: We Need an Agroecological Revolution

By Mark Bittman  February 1, 2021
Astrophysics

An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

By Avi Loeb  January 26, 2021
Writing Advice

In Favor of Speed:
Write Fast, Fix Later

By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
Daily Fiction

Black Buck

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 12, 2021
The Hub

Cover reveal: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s new novel, Savage Tongues.

By Emily Temple  December 8, 2020
WWII

How a 27-Year-Old Heiress Helped Shape the Post-WWII World

By Catherine Grace Katz  October 1, 2020
American Presidents

On the American Election to Avoid WWIII

By A. J. Baime  July 16, 2020
Personal Space

Personal Space: Alia Volz’s Writing Helped Her Family Heal

By The Virtual Book Channel  April 23, 2020
In Memoriam

Ta-Nehisi Coates: On the Privilege of Knowing David Carr

By Ta-Nehisi Coates  April 7, 2020
Daily Fiction

Surrender

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 26, 2020
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