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The Making of America’s Frontier Mythology Was the Making of America

The Making of America’s Frontier Mythology Was the Making of America

Paul Andrew Hutton Explores the Origins and Development of Our National Narrative

By Paul Andrew Hutton | August 22, 2025

Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

Jason Mott Navigates the Demands of Fiction and Nonfiction in the Second Trump Era

By Jason Mott | August 14, 2025

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Nagasaki Before the Bomb

M.G. Sheftall Chronicles Daily Life in Japan At the End of the Second World War

By M.G. Sheftall | August 7, 2025

What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

Suzanne Cope Talks to Darlene Okpo, Jacob A.C. Remes, Julie Schweitert Colazzo and Steff Reed

By Suzanne Cope | July 3, 2025

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Dylin Hardcastle Recommends Alana Portero, James Baldwin, Lars Horn, and More

By Dylin Hardcastle | June 16, 2025

Against Algorithms: Why Tuning Out is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

Against Algorithms: Why Tuning Out is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

Ling Ling Huang on the Importance of Keeping True to Your Own Thoughts

By Ling Ling Huang | May 14, 2025

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 29, 2025

Before It’s Too Late: Crossing the Northwest Passage in the Era of Climate Change

By Mark Synnott | April 18, 2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

By Stuart Nadler | March 19, 2025

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

Neil Shubin on Fridtjof Nansen and the Scientific Legacy of 19th-Century Arctic Exploration

By Neil Shubin | February 6, 2025

Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

Jessica Soffer Recommends Ocean Vuong, Emma Straub, Andre Aciman, and More

By Jessica Soffer | February 5, 2025

Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

Cherry Lou Sy on Searching for Identity Beyond Categories and Schisms

By Cherry Lou Sy | October 11, 2024

What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

Jamie Harrow on the Similarities Between Chronicling Hard-Won Victories in Love and Athletics

By Jamie Harrow | September 27, 2024

The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

Jessica Pishko Recommends 11 Essential Works on Extremism

By Jessica Pishko | September 19, 2024

And So I Roar

And So I Roar

Abi Daré

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 28, 2024

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Maribeth Fischer on the Joys of Creating Joyful Fiction

By Maribeth Fischer | August 21, 2024

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