Norton

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia

 
By Martin Padgett  June 12, 2025
Film Criticism

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

By Henry Lien  March 10, 2025
Poems

“Tamarack Fire,” a Poem by Rachel Richardson

By Rachel Richardson  March 7, 2025
Historical Fiction

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

By Andrea Barrett  February 26, 2025
The Body

Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich  February 10, 2025
On Poetry

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

By Pádraig Ó' Tuama  February 6, 2025
In Conversation

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

By Joy Castro  October 1, 2024
Book Bans

Censorship Through Centuries: On the Long Fight for Queer Liberation

By Rebecca L. Davis  September 9, 2024
Poems

“The Prodigal Converses with the Land,” a Poem by Kwame Dawes

By Kwame Dawes  August 21, 2024
literary criticism

Joy Williams on the Wild, Lyrical Stories of Brad Watson

By Joy Williams  July 16, 2024
Economics

Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

By Joseph E. Stiglitz  April 24, 2024
Poems

“The Vocation,” a Poem by Nick Laird

By Nick Laird  November 21, 2023
Animals

Do Octopuses Dream of Elusive Crabs?

By David Scheel  July 24, 2023
Climate Fiction

How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

By Deborah Willis  June 15, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Andre Dubus III Beats Writer’s Block By Asking the Right Questions

By Literary Hub  June 6, 2023
Games

On the Insanity of Being a Scrabble Enthusiast

By Oliver Roeder  January 25, 2022
American Presidents

On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

By Robert S. Levine  August 24, 2021
Audiobooks

My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

By James Tate Hill  August 3, 2021
Power

Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

By Martha C. Nussbaum  May 13, 2021
Oral Histories

Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas
of Oral History

By Craig Taylor  March 24, 2021
Lit Crit

How Jean Rhys Longed for an Island of Stability

By Julia Alvarez  November 18, 2020
Halloween

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

By Roy A. Meals, MD  October 30, 2020
Essays

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

By Claire Messud  October 13, 2020
New York City

The Cast of Characters at Chelsea’s Legendary
Flea Market

By Michael Rips  April 22, 2020
Poem

“Hearts Amiss”
A Poem by Gerald Stern

By Gerald Stern  January 22, 2020
Popular Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson Writes to His Fans

By Neil deGrasse Tyson  November 13, 2019
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