A beige plastic telephone sits on a wooden table. The handset, attached by a coiled cord, rests in its cradle. The base has a ...

Eve Sneider on the genius of Janet Malcolm, who “was running circles around everyone else.” | Lit Hub Biography The ...

Electroconvulsive therapy is often used as a last line of treatment against mood disorders. It works by sending short ...

By the time I learned who Janet Malcolm was, it turned out that I had been circling her for some time. What I mean is that I had known about her work—I had read some of her articles in college ...

The late Truman Capote left behind a prodigious amount of novel drafts, New Journalism, and frenemies when he died in 1984.

University presses have played an important, if complex, role in the history of Native studies and more than 80 members of ...

China Miéville has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for his novel The Rouse. The Goldsmiths Prize, launched in 2013 “to ...

In a bizarre turn of events, on Wednesday November 4th, New York City’s Queens Public Library (QPL) system, which operates 66 ...

Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2026 Book Award, which “celebrates works of literature, ...

Beneath the seventeenth-century Palace of Westminster there was a hidden Medieval undercroft, enduring like a line of erased ...

Erika Mann drove through the night to meet the fifty-two most wanted men in the world. It was the middle of August 1945 and ...

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