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"The White Whales of the Sky." On Moby-Dick, Airplanes, and Obsessions (lithub.com)
1 point by PaulHoule 1 day ago | past | discuss
On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living as American Families (lithub.com)
12 points by archagon 1 day ago | past | 1 comment
The Paradox of Prosperity: How Urban Renewal Pushes Workers to the Periphery (lithub.com)
2 points by PaulHoule 9 days ago | past | discuss
How Victorian England Put Men on the Moon... Or Not (2022) (lithub.com)
3 points by pera 13 days ago | past | discuss
The Importance of Fact-Checking (lithub.com)
186 points by NaOH 16 days ago | past | 131 comments
The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities at 50 (lithub.com)
2 points by PaulHoule 20 days ago | past | 1 comment
Trump is trying to destroy libraries (lithub.com)
12 points by mdp2021 30 days ago | past | 1 comment
The Evolution of the Color Pink (lithub.com)
17 points by gmays 38 days ago | past
What My Father's Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing (lithub.com)
50 points by PaulHoule 39 days ago | past | 4 comments
Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought (lithub.com)
1 point by lermontov 56 days ago | past
Why Literature Loves Lists (lithub.com)
3 points by Tomte 61 days ago | past
Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017) (lithub.com)
293 points by pabs3 65 days ago | past | 198 comments
When Ford Madox Ford and Hemingway Started a Journal in Paris (lithub.com)
2 points by Thevet 66 days ago | past
What should the cover of Pride and Prejudice look like? (lithub.com)
1 point by janpio 71 days ago | past
Trying (and Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover (lithub.com)
2 points by zdw 76 days ago | past
Crumple Zone: What Car Crashes Reveal About Human Hubris and Fragility (lithub.com)
4 points by PaulHoule 78 days ago | past
Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library (lithub.com)
229 points by pseudolus 79 days ago | past | 144 comments
[flagged] It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI (lithub.com)
146 points by pseudolus 87 days ago | past | 180 comments
What Roman Coins Reveal About the People Who Made Them (lithub.com)
23 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | past | 2 comments
The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds (lithub.com)
1 point by pseudolus 3 months ago | past
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin's Activism (lithub.com)
5 points by pseudolus 3 months ago | past
Lit Hub's 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024 (lithub.com)
2 points by mdp2021 3 months ago | past
Kurt Vonnegut's advice to the people of 2088 also applies to the people of 2020 (lithub.com)
3 points by peutetre 3 months ago | past
Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse (lithub.com)
29 points by anarbadalov 4 months ago | past | 6 comments
The world of Dante's Divine Comedy (lithub.com)
115 points by lermontov 4 months ago | past | 71 comments
In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse (lithub.com)
364 points by bertman 4 months ago | past | 333 comments
The Journey of a Sea Bean: In Praise of the Ocean's Smallest Gifts (lithub.com)
3 points by PaulHoule 4 months ago | past
Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system (lithub.com)
164 points by HR01 4 months ago | past | 188 comments
Tech companies, once again, are trying to do publishing (lithub.com)
3 points by herbertl 4 months ago | past
HarperCollins is selling their authors' work to AI tech (lithub.com)
3 points by donohoe 5 months ago | past

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