Liveright

Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

Phil Melanson Argues on Leonardo da Vinci, Bad Reviews, and Bucking History'’s Heteronormativity

 
By Phil Melanson  June 16, 2025
Daily Fiction

The Catch

By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 5, 2025
Daily Fiction

The Ephemera Collector

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 20, 2025
Daily Fiction

Victorian Psycho

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 3, 2025
Daily Fiction

The Rest Is Memory

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 10, 2024
Italian Literature

A Riveting, Timeless Journey Through the Afterlife: Inside the World of Dante’s Divine Comedy

By Michael Palma  December 2, 2024
Daily Fiction

The Divine Comedy

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 2, 2024
Daily Fiction

“Dead Set”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 28, 2024
Civil Rights

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

By Dylan C. Penningroth  September 13, 2024
Daily Fiction

Quarterlife

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 10, 2024
Women's Stories

UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

By Kirsten Bakis  February 21, 2024
Craft

Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

By Benjamin Moser  November 20, 2023
Daily Fiction

The Pole

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 21, 2023
On Translation

The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English

By Michael R. Katz  July 21, 2023
Writers in Conversation

T.C. Boyle on Surviving and Satirizing the Climate Crisis

By Jane Ciabattari  May 2, 2023
Cover Reveal

Revealing the Cover for Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s new novel…

By Literary Hub  March 28, 2023
Poetry

“Homer, Louisiana,” a Poem by Mahogany L. Browne

By Mahogany L. Browne  February 10, 2023
Women Writers

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

By Hilary A. Hallett  July 26, 2022
LGBTQ Memoir

Growing Up Gay on the Oil-Rich Prairie of North Dakota

By Taylor Brorby  June 9, 2022
Poetry

“Song” (from One Thousand and One Nights)

By Yasmine Seale  November 16, 2021
Storytelling

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
Horror

Finding Horror (and Art) in the Gray Areas of Identity

By Virginia Feito  August 10, 2021
Modernism

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

By Richard Zenith  July 22, 2021
Reading Lists

How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

By Keenan Norris  June 22, 2021
Racism

On Juneteenth and the Struggle to Commemorate and Make Sense of Protest and Rebellion

By Jelani Cobb  June 18, 2021
Audiobooks

How Stories Change When They Move From Page to Voice

By Laura Lindstedt, translated by David Hackston  June 14, 2021
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