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
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…| Literary Hub
Ten years before I became a dad, I was at MacDowell, eating dinner at a communal table with two poets. They were a decade older, a man and a woman. They were talking about having kids. “I don’t wan…| Literary Hub
One spring afternoon in 2023, I received an unexpected phone call from Lewis Lapham, whose voice I’d been listening to since 1998, when I joined the editorial staff of Harper’s Magazine. We hadn’t …| Literary Hub
“You see that line on the ground? Follow it to the end and make everybody move around you.” These were the instructions of my sister’s best friend in high school. Her name was Car…| Literary Hub
Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in sc…| Literary Hub
In my grandma’s middle room, there are six long wooden shelves that house my great-great-grandfather Jefferson’s personal library. You’ll find Arabian Nights, the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, and th…| 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