Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, certainly didn’t see a need to clock in every| Literary Hub
Before the war, I worked as an English language teacher at a kindergarten in the Gaza Strip. In the evenings, I gave private lessons to students at my own educational centre beneath my house. I had been working since university,| Literary Hub
Last fall in Maine, my eleven-year-old son contacted a sharpshooter and requested two deer heads. Once or twice a year on Peaks Island, where we live, a professional marksman ventures into the woods at night to cull deer and maintain| Literary Hub
More than twenty years ago, I walked into Kremer Pigment, a small shop in lower Manhattan, and by the time I left, I had the idea for a novel—a story about pigment—and had signed up for a workshop in traditional| Literary Hub
When my essay about paying for $42,000 worth of dental work with sugar baby money first ran in HuffPost Personal, I was thrilled. Having only published in small literary magazines before, I wasn’t used to the feeling of strangers actually| Literary Hub
The “primary purpose” of New World slaves, Sidney Mintz wrote, was to serve as manual laborers engaged…in the production of market commodities…Slaves were not primarily a source of pres…| Literary Hub
Sally Rooney, the iconic Millennial bard, can no longer safely enter the United Kingdom for fear of arrest. The author behind Intermezzo and Normal People recently received English flack for her su…| Literary Hub
My absolute favorite task, when I was the Vice President of Awards for the National Book Critics Circle, was when we had narrowed down all of the titles we’d considered to five finalists for our si…| Literary Hub
For both the McKenna brothers, ethnobotanist Terence and ethnopharmacologist Dennis, and for anyone else with the courage and respiratory fortitude to hold a couple of lungfuls of its vapor in thei…| Literary Hub
Over 600 writers and poets [3/10/2024 Update: this number now stands at over 1300]—including Roxane Gay, Alissa Nutting, Marie-Helene Bertino, Kiese Laymon, Saeed Jones, Fady Joudah, Carmen Maria M…| Literary Hub
Hello. Lots of folks have asked me if the phrase “The Tortured Poets Department,” which is the title of Taylor Swift’s new album, is grammatically correct. Maybe! It might be grammatically correct,…| Literary Hub
In A.V. Marraccini’s book We the Parasites, Marraccini describes a critic’s relationship to a work of art as parasitic. Like female wasps which crawl into female figs, thus pollinating the fig’s in…| Literary Hub
