Walter Benjamin

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

Ed Simon on the Enduring Political Relevance of Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

 
By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
literary criticism

“Make it New… Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

By Ryan Ruby  November 22, 2024
Reading Lists

20 new books to check out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot  March 21, 2023
Book Collection

Book Stalls and Back Rooms: Traveling the World in Search of Literary Serendipity

By Barry Yourgrau  February 15, 2023
On Translation

The Order of Things: Jennifer Croft on Translating Olga Tokarczuk

By Jennifer Croft  February 1, 2022
Reading

On the Pain of Reading Contemporary Writing When You Are a Contemporary Writer

By Will Self  July 2, 2021
WWII

The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of
Nazi-Occupied France

By Justus Rosenberg  January 30, 2020
Criticism

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
Graphic Novels

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

By Frances Cannon  May 9, 2019
Excerpts

How Horror Changed After WWI

By W. Scott Poole  October 31, 2018
Poets

Read Early Sonnets By Walter Benjamin, for the First Time in English

By Carl Skoggard  December 11, 2017
Art

The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter

By Meghan Forbes  September 7, 2017
Deep Dive

Nat Turner’s Divine Violence

By Gabe Stutman  August 24, 2017
Politics

We Want Our Refugees and Exiles to Be Victims

By Ece Temelkuran  July 27, 2017
Excerpts

Lessons From Parisian Protest Culture

By Lauren Elkin  February 28, 2017
Lit Hub Radio

A 90-Year-Old John Berger is Not Surprised By President Trump

By Literary Hub  January 2, 2017
Criticism

How to Keep Out Death: On the Literature of Crowds

By Dustin Illingworth  October 17, 2016
What to Read

21 Books You Should Read This July

By Literary Hub  July 1, 2016
Essay

How to Write Through Dreams

By Luke Carman  June 2, 2016
What to Read

102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

By Jonathan Russell Clark  March 4, 2016
Daily practice

In Praise of the Book Tower

By Susan Harlan  June 17, 2015
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