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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...