• Memoir

    On Translation

    Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English:
    On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

    Sahar Delijani Navigates the Complexity of Conjuring Her Old Life in a New Language

     
    By Sahar Delijani  January 14, 2025
    Family Histories

    From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

    By Emily Yates-Doerr  January 9, 2025
    On Race

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

    By Irvin Weathersby Jr.  January 8, 2025
    On Reading

    From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

    By Gloria L. Huang  January 8, 2025
    The Natural World

    Paradise in Progress: On Creating a Natural Refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains

    By Paula Whyman  January 6, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    Crumple Zone: What Car Crashes Reveal About Human Hubris and Fragility

    By Sara Mitchell  January 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Henry James

    On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

    By Katherine J. Chen  December 19, 2024
    The Natural World

    In Search of the Perfect Piece of Wood

    By Callum Robinson  December 12, 2024
    Trauma

    Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

    Gabeba Baderoon Considers the Ways We Do and Do Not Confront Personal and Collective Violence

    By Gabeba Baderoon  January 10, 2025
    On Reading

    Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

    By Orlando Reade  December 10, 2024
    Gaza

    Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

    By Susan Abulhawa  December 6, 2024
    AIDS

    On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?

    By Heather McCalden  December 2, 2024
    New York City

    “Small But Unforgettable Moments.” What E.B. White Loved About New York City

    Martha White Remembers Her Grandfather’s Lifelong Relationship With the Big Apple

    By Martha White  November 25, 2024
    Divorce

    Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy

    By Kim Young  November 21, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

    By Abigail Thomas  November 21, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
    Religion

    Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

    The Author of “Yoke and Feather” Explores Biblical Stories, Desire, and a Painting by Velázquez

    By Jessie Van Eerden  November 20, 2024
    Being Trans

    Waking Up Trans in Trump’s America

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 15, 2024
    Politics

    They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

    By Mirza Waheed  November 13, 2024
    Protest Art

    A Gesture Larger Than Death: On Bill T. Jones’s AIDS Elegy “Still/Here” at 30

    By Jen Benka  November 13, 2024
    Family Stories

    Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

    Linda Grant: “We are all made up of private family legends, we are all novels in the making.”

    By Linda Grant  November 13, 2024
    Science Writing

    Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

    By Anna Farro Henderson  November 11, 2024
    The Hub

    Dorothy Allison, author and force of nature, has died.

    By Brittany Allen  November 8, 2024
    Literary Heroes

    Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

    By Nathan Deuel  December 11, 2024
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