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Fish Bad, Sugar Good… And Other Medieval Ideas Abo...
Although medieval ideas about food were very diffe...
The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath
My Sylvia Plath fandom dates back to the early nin...
Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Through...
There are times in a person’s life when the end of...
The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined ...
Like the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, Euro...
What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a We...
Around the year 2000 Nick Wallis was sat at a card...
What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Countr...
In one of my earliest memories, I’m shrinking. I’m...
The Seekers of Deer Creek
1998 They are running again. Deep into the seam of...
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a ser...
Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/...
Some good old-fashioned literary drama is just the...
Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Today, the Booker Prize committee announced this y...
Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2026
Why Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s home was a sanc...
What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson ...
Colson Whitehead is a transitional figure in liter...
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders a...
If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16,...
What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physic...
I am often challenged about what sort of canon I a...
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoa...
At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed...
How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better...
There is one conversation I remember most distinct...
W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the...
Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of ...
Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, ...
Rounding out the end of the month with some long-a...
I Made You Up Inside My Head
Chinese numbers distinguish between two different ...
Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story
Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publi...
























