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

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

Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, ...

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

Women’s historical fiction and historical romance are currently more popular than ever, but women’s historical nonfiction? Not so much. Despite being a biographer, when choosing books for ...

On August 29, 1511, Isabella d’Este, the Marchioness of Mantua, patron of the arts, fashion icon, and one of the most famous ...

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

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

For the past few years, my father and I have been writing a book together, a memoir told in his first-person voice. This has ...

Sarah Fritz is a musicologist, mezzo-soprano, and music historian who’s contributed to the New York Times, given pre-concert ...

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

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