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How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

Irene Vallejo on Publishing and Distribution in Antiquity

By Irene Vallejo | October 18, 2022

How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

Andrea Wulf on the Origins and Enduring Legacy of German Romanticism

By Andrea Wulf | September 14, 2022

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

“On the farm there isn’t a maze of an ecosystem but just a simple human plan.”

By Ellyn Gaydos | June 28, 2022

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

“Even in photographs it looked as if his soul had been ‘pumped out of him.’’

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | March 1, 2022

How Buster Keaton Became a Cinematic Superstar

How Buster Keaton Became a Cinematic Superstar

James Curtis on Buster Keaton's Transition from the Stage to the Screen

By James Curtis | February 18, 2022

The Leopard is Loose

The Leopard is Loose

Stephen Harrigan

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 19, 2022

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The Fortune Men

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 14, 2021

MacArthur Park

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 29, 2021

A Scotsman: Why I Love Getting Drunk on Cocktails in America

By Daniel Sloss | October 13, 2021

Mapping the Cerebral: What Are Dreams and Why Are They Essential?

Mapping the Cerebral: What Are Dreams and Why Are They Essential?

Sidarta Ribeiro on the Cultural History of Dreaming and the Role of Memory

By Sidarta Ribeiro | August 16, 2021

“Money, Geography, Youth”

“Money, Geography, Youth”

Alix Ohlin

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 28, 2021

Chronicle of a Fiesta: Remembering the Dishes of a Oaxaca Childhood

Chronicle of a Fiesta: Remembering the Dishes of a Oaxaca Childhood

Alejandro Ruiz on Planning a Mayordomía and Embracing Culinary Birthrights

By Alejandro Ruiz and Carla Altesor | March 19, 2021

How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

Alexander Wolff on the Life and Career of His Celebrated Grandfather

By Alexander Wolff | March 10, 2021

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

John Archibald on Living with the Domestic Terror of 1960s “Bombingham”

By John Archibald | March 10, 2021

Perestroika in Paris

Perestroika in Paris

Jane Smiley

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 1, 2020

"Matzoh"

A Poem by Gail Mazur

By Gail Mazur | November 17, 2020

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