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Hunger rules the day. And the night. And the afternoons. The eager grunting from the trio of baby Tyrannosaurus can sometimes seem ceaseless, the only quiet coming from the fleeting moments when th…

The following is from The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation by Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein, published by Bloomsbury Publishing. * _______________________________ From The Two Sad…

New York’s subway, from its founding, was dreamt as a public good in all senses, to provide a useful and reliable service that was also a pleasant place to be. City train stations were filled with …

Is it telling that I was always more interested in the amateurs? When I think about the literary depictions of artists I liked best, they tend to share certain qualities: frustrated effort, a willf…

Who chooses the poems featured on the New York City subway? Meet the people behind Poetry in Motion. | Lit Hub Design Rebecca Birrell considers Jane Eyre, Lily Briscoe, and writing about amateur wo…

It took me a long time to grasp the shadowy nature of the literary world. The ins and outs of applying for funding, usually tied to another form of funding, like a grant to a foreign publisher or a…

It’s a week of exciting, long-awaited drops. Chad Harbach, bestselling author of The Art of Fielding, is back, fifteen years later, with a follow-up to that beloved novel. Jane Schoenbrun, de…

On the evening of July 31, 1914, after their fruitless visit to the foreign ministry to argue for French neutrality in the coming war, Jean Jaurès and Jean Longuet (the grandson of Karl Marx) trave…

Today, written notes are such a large part of a Western musical education that the word “music” has often come to mean exactly that: sheet music or a printed score. Musicians and their teachers set…

“Clever and persistent use of propaganda can make a nation believe that heaven is hell and, conversely, that the most miserable life is paradise.” – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925) “The European mi…