Across many African literary traditions, the boundaries between the living and the dead, the seen and the unseen, are fluid ...

Movement against loss. Summer has its autumnal thoughts.  / Bets made with your own body.” So begins Malgorzata Lebda’s poem ...

Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in ...

In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years ...

Is it telling that I was always more interested in the amateurs? When I think about the literary depictions of artists I ...

On the evening of July 31, 1914, after their fruitless visit to the foreign ministry to argue for French neutrality in the ...

Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and ...

What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the ...

I’m angry at MAGA leaders every day for the lies and manipulation and wreckage they’ve wrought on the very people who voted ...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book ...

Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense, and he’s one of my favorite classic film directors, creating some ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the summer of 1944, news of an exciting new ...