Lauren Markham

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold on the Urgency Writing Truth to Power

 
By Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold  March 13, 2025
Writers in Conversation

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
New Books Tuesdays

Josephine Baker! Lidia Yuknavitch! Geraldine Brooks! Ali Smith! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  February 4, 2025
Journalism

Lost and Found: Why I Almost Quit Journalism (and What Brought Me Back)

By Lauren Markham  July 26, 2024
Migration

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

By Lauren Markham  February 13, 2024
New Books Tuesdays

A novel from Kelly Link! Billie Holiday! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  February 13, 2024
Best of 2022

88 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2022

By Literary Hub  December 19, 2022
Climate Change

What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis

By Literary Hub  April 22, 2022
The Longest Year: 2020+

Land of Smoke and Fire: Documenting California’s Endless Season of Heat

By Jeff Frost and Lauren Markham  July 21, 2021
Best of the Year

What Did You Read This Year
That You Loved?

By Literary Hub  December 18, 2020
Correspondence

For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing
in a Pandemic

By Lauren Markham  September 4, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed

By Lauren Markham  April 6, 2020
The Best of 2019

Some of Our Favorite Writers on the Best Books They Read in 2019

By Freeman's   December 20, 2019
New in Nonfiction

The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won’t Die

By Lauren Markham  June 10, 2019
Feature

Life in a Prison Turned Hostel

By Lauren Markham  August 3, 2015

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