My Mother’s Voice: Messages From Tehran — The walls were cracked, the ceiling collapsing. Ruins underfoot. My manuscript spread haphazardly across the areas untouched by rubble. Pages lifting and settling on top of one another in the early…
How a Childhood Bookmobile Sparked My Love of Reading — When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been the train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade be…
Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026 — What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe,…
American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
On Integrating Unions and Finding “Good White People” in Midcentury Minnesota — The black-and-white booklet is meant to fit easily in a pocket or slip into the palm of a polite stranger, anyone whose willingness to make eye contact left them open to learning about race relatio…
On the Speed of Animals, Airborne and Earthbound — Animals move in all manner of ways, not all of which fit in the three big categories of mobility: running, flying, swimming. Some organisms are subjected to passive locomotion, carried by water or…
My Tween Daughter’s Friend Is a Mean Girl. Should I Tell Her Mother? — Many of the girl’s friends have begun distancing themselves from her, and I don’t know if her mother understands the full extent of the problem.
The Mira Dial Is a Physical Device Built to Keep You Productive and On-Task — Staying focused is hard. The Mira Dial wants to make it easier.
Chantel Acevedo on Reimagining Her Father Through Fiction — When I consider my father, who disappeared almost entirely from my life in my infancy, I think of what I don’t know. I don’t remember his hands, or his voice, how he formed arguments, whether he wa…
Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written? — This piece was published in collaboration with Golden Goal, a literary magazine about the intersection of politics, culture and sport at the 2026 World Cup. To read more, visit their website: golde…
Submitting to the Beast - Longreads — "A father and son in New Orleans—feasting and flaneuring."
This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in…
In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights | TechCrunch — The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.