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On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

Maris Kreizman Wonders What Can Be Done in the Face of Trump’s Devastating NEA Cuts?

By Maris Kreizman | May 8, 2025

Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design

Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design

Allison Rudnick on the Rise and Fall of the 19th Century "Literary Poster"

By Allison Rudnick | April 3, 2024

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Behind the Scenes of ACT UP’s Groundbreaking <em

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Kissing Doesn’t Kill Campaign">Behind the Scenes of ACT UP’s Groundbreaking Kissing Doesn’t Kill Campaign

Jack Lowery on Real-Time Intersectionality in the Fight Against AIDS

By Jack Lowery | April 11, 2022

Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

María Amparo Escandón on Fictionalizing a Newfound Home on the West Coast

By María Amparo Escandón | September 9, 2021

This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

By Jonny Diamond | April 14, 2021

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

A Brief History of Selling the Future

By Ryan Mungia | February 11, 2021

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How the Algorithm Rewards Extremism

How the Algorithm Rewards Extremism

Clive Thompson on Big Tech, the Internet, and the Mess We're In

By Clive Thompson | March 28, 2019

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Screenwriter James Schamus on What Goes Into the TV You're Binge-Watching

By James Schamus | December 12, 2018

How I Went from Writing Ads About a Stoned Puppet to Writing a Memoir

How I Went from Writing Ads About a Stoned Puppet to Writing a Memoir

"I’d Never Tried to Sustain a Single Narrative for 200 Pages"

By Leah Dieterich | September 14, 2018

On the Rise and Fall of America's Most Famous Dessert

On the Rise and Fall of America's Most Famous Dessert

Allie Rowbottom and a Brief History of Jell-O

By Allie Rowbottom | July 25, 2018

What's a Poetry Reading Doing at a Tech Start-Up Anyway?

What's a Poetry Reading Doing at a Tech Start-Up Anyway?

On MailChimp's GetLit Series, and Poetry and Advertising's Long Relationship

By Adriane Quinlan | December 8, 2017

Don't I Know You?

Don't I Know You?

Marni Jackson

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 24, 2016