When I first started seeing coverage of what seemed like a deranged plan from the Trump administration to take over Greenland ...

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In September, the month of Big Books, it was all about the art ...

For as long as people have had children, some groups and individuals have had their procreation encouraged, subsidized, even ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Today is International Translation Day. The date ...

After a decade of Donald Trump’s chaos and cruelty, we might ask how literary fiction is responding. Readers, for their part, flocked to journalistic and historical explainers in Trump 1.0, ...

On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2026 class of MacArthur Fellows: 20 individuals who demonstrate ...

I got into librarianship kind of like how a barfly gets into tending bar: you sit in the place for hours on end, day after ...

Phrased & Confused, in which Eli Burnstein digs into the meaning of some of the famous literary aphorisms of all time, is ...

A Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned ...

A group of concerned booksellers recently sent an open letter to the American Booksellers Association and the American ...

ANTIBLACKNESS (noun) 1. that which engulfs Blackness with inescapable violence 2. a set of relations that mark and position ...

A group of right-to-read advocates and authors are hosting a live telethon tomorrow to draw attention to freedom to read ...