Penguin

“Intimacy” and “Endurance,” Two Poems by Maria Ferguson

From the Collection “Swell”

 
By Maria Ferguson  January 30, 2025
True Crime

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan  July 1, 2024
Queer Literature

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

By Pedro Lemebel  May 29, 2024
Native American Literature

A Rare Sacred Novel: Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

By Tommy Orange  March 12, 2024
Poetry

“Remains,” a Poem by Rose McLarney

By Rose McLarney  March 6, 2024
Willa Cather

Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
On Poetry

Pattiann Rogers on the “Flicker” that Connects All Life in Her Poems

By Leslie Lindsay  April 24, 2023
Reading Lists

Russian Books That Outlived the Censors: A Reading List

By Elena Gorokhova  March 28, 2022
Reading Lists

The Shifting Unreliability of Memory: A Reading List

By Jo Harkin  March 2, 2022
Black Girlhood

The Meaningful Mundane:
6 Classic Books That Depict Black Girlhood

By Kai Harris  February 2, 2022
War

5 Important Books That Reveal the Human Cost of War

By Janine di Giovanni  October 28, 2021
Reading Lists

On the Very Human Importance of Walking: A Reading List

By Katherine May  October 22, 2021
Activism

Rejecting Complacency: Books to Inspire Activism and Advocacy

By Lila Nordstrom  September 1, 2021
Daily Fiction

In the Country of Others

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 10, 2021
Reading Lists

Searching For Myself in Working Class Art

By Cynthia Cruz  July 15, 2021
Reading Lists

On Leaving and Returning:
A Reading List About Home

By Andy Abramowitz  June 9, 2021
Daily Fiction

“Goldfish Bowl”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 14, 2020
Medieval History

Finding a Beautiful Escape in Illuminated Manuscripts

By Christopher de Hamel  December 16, 2019
Nature Writing

Meditations on a Passing Eagle, and the Beauty of Desolation

By Kathleen Jamie  September 24, 2019
Poets

‘We Used to Call it Puerto Rico Rain,’
A Poem by Willie Perdomo

By Willie Perdomo  April 2, 2019
In Memoriam

Remembering Publisher Peter Mayer

By Literary Hub  May 18, 2018
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