Viking

Dissolving Certainties: On Reading the Complex Story of Carbon in Our World

Paul Hawken Merges Science and Indigenous Wisdom on a Heating Planet

 
By Paul Hawken  March 18, 2025
Literary Community

The Literary Favor Economy: In Praise of the Oft-Maligned Book Blurb

By Ada Calhoun  February 25, 2025
Feminism

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

By Haley Mlotek  February 18, 2025
On Race

Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America’s Criminal Justice System

By Irvin Weathersby Jr.  January 8, 2025
Sports

Nazem Kadri on Becoming a Brown Muslim Hockey Star in a Very White Sport

By Nazem Kadri  October 28, 2024
craft advice

No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

By John Larison  October 16, 2024
European History

How the Future Henry V Began His Royal Career

By Dan Jones  October 3, 2024
Women in History

Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

By Sonia Purnell  September 20, 2024
Bookselling

Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

By Evan Friss  August 21, 2024
Queer History

The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

By Daisy Dunn  July 30, 2024
Daily Fiction

The Bright Sword

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 15, 2024
Representation

Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

By Asha Thanki  July 10, 2024
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Tracy Chevalier Has No Time for Writers Who Don’t Read

By Literary Hub  June 20, 2024
Sharks

What It’s Like to Encounter a Shark When You’re Sailing Alone on the Open Ocean

By Richard J. King  May 31, 2024
Daily Fiction

The Spoiled Heart

By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 16, 2024
Daily Fiction

Headshot

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 13, 2024
Writers in Conversation

Rita Bullwinkel on Playing With Fictional Time

By Jane Ciabattari  March 12, 2024
Painting

Blood, Sweat, and Paint: Finding the Work Behind the Art

By Bianca Bosker  February 8, 2024
Inspiration

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

By J. Ryan Stradal  October 16, 2023
Loneliness

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

By Literary Hub  September 25, 2023
Shakespeare

How Performances of Othello Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

By Farah Karim-Cooper  August 15, 2023
The Hub

Exclusive: See the cover for Phillip B. Williams’s debut novel, Ours.

By Literary Hub  July 26, 2023
Family Histories

Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

By Mihret Sibhat  July 26, 2023
Historical Fiction

The Rest is History: Andrew Ridker on Writing About the Recent Past

By Andrew Ridker  July 12, 2023
Daily Fiction

The History of a Difficult Child

By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 30, 2023
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