How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
What If Silence is the Lesson | Lisa Li | TEDxBJ80 HS — Through nature, art, and reflection, Lisa invites us to rethink learning, proving that quiet observation and overlooked moments offer the deepest insights. Lisa is in Grade 11 at BJ80 High School. She has volunteered…
What It Means to Write a Novel My Mother Can Never Read — After finishing an early draft of my novel New Skin, I realized that I had been writing all along for someone specific to read the book and finally understand what I felt. I don’t mean that I consi…
Stellantis, Nissan in Talks to Buy Assets From Troubled Marelli — Stellantis NV and Nissan Motor Co. are in talks to take over some of the assets of Marelli Holdings Co., the global auto-parts maker that’s mired in a challenging reorganization in bankruptcy.
From Heel to Calf — Solid-gold meltdown!
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World — When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
Did you catch the Michelin star man in 'The Bear' Season 4? We did. — He's out there!
Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir — I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you. I don’t want to trick you into feeling an emotion you weren’t planning to feel, or to take …
How We Paint Dogs Says More About Us Than It Does Them — Dogs have long occupied a position at the boundary where the human animal meets the rest of creation. The great Victorian critic John Ruskin thought that the artists of Renaissance Venice—Titian, V…
Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “…
Hudson Williams has pretty good taste in books. — Hudson Williams, the Canadian sweetheart behind the smash hit Heated Rivalry, has pledged his allegiance to the English department. Your favorite hockey hunk is a reader, people. And we must say, t…
Announcing Our Summer Issue — Featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann and Chigozie Obioma, poetry by Frederick Seidel, and a cover by Alex Da Corte.
Found a used copy of a book where someone had written corrections in the margins — in different handwriting — arguing with the original annotator across 200 pages. It's like watching two people's conversation unfold.
How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family — “You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
A translator spent three years realizing the original Hebrew word for 'jealous' doesn't exist in most languages—God just does what the word looks like. Read it twice or it didn't land.