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Directors Silas Howard and Harry Dodge talk about making art with friends, San Francisco in the 2000s, and the trap of representation

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There are different types of nostalgia, and how they recall the past can tell us a great deal about our present.

Red fare at June 19 celebrations has significance that predates American slavery.

S&S is making a comeback in a very narrow way — we need to restore the genre's essential weirdness.

You know it when you see it.

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On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back

The violence specialists [from Aeon]

Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?

How a Tamil fabric built an American university, dressed the Ivy League, and still couldn't find a shelf in the store that calls itself Fabr

Novels set during the height of COVID-19 fail to tell the full story of that era of mass death and despair.

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In Early America, some prestigious residents advocated for the replacement of cane sugar, supplied by enslaved workers, with maple sugar fro

A George Whitmore reissue translates the historical feeling of queer coming-of-age in the 1950s for contemporary readers without slipping in

Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects

Flour. Baking powder. Salt. Heavy cream or butter. These ingredients are the beginnings—of biscuits—as well as, for me, a literary community

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how muc

Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for any

The Meta founder answers your questions about Harvard style and how billionaires should spend their money.

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