What would it take to build a world where every pregnant person in this country had the rights, resources, and respect they needed to decide what to do with their pregnancy, whether to continue it or not? That world that we want to build is what’s possible with this election and the organizing that must happen after it, no matter the outcome. That world...

For the past few weeks, Literary Hub has been going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls next week, on November 5th. We’ve featured reading lists, essays, and interviews on important topics like income inequality, health care, gun culture, and more. For a better handle on the issues...

TODAY: In 1938, Orson Welles performs his adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds on the radio. Panic ensues.  ☆☆☆ THE ISSUES: 2024 ☆☆☆ Lit Hub is taking an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Today we look at the urgent issue of abortion rights across the country, with the ten...

A young man burning alive in his makeshift hospital bed singed the unspeakable into world memory—a short memory, a hyperactive memory with attention-deficit, a deliberately porous memory without industrial chronicity behind it—and do you think the executioners care? Culture of the aftermath of images and the lives they contained. National Geographic...

People were right that Mike Davis was a prophet, but wrong about what a prophet is. There’s a debased version in which prophets are oracles, like Nostodamus and witches staring into crystal balls in bad movies, equipped with a supernatural ability to see the future the rest of us can’t. Mike had an entirely natural ability, earned through decades of...

Vietnam was a war of choice. Understanding it requires a reckoning with this stubborn fact. The United States was not provoked into war, and none of the Cold War justifications of containment or the “domino theory” required the US military to intervene. If South Vietnam fell to a communist insurgency, the Chinese or the North Vietnamese were not going...