“Effaced…” by Jawdat Fakhreddine translated by Huda Fakhreddine Effaced, our villages, squares and skies. Nothing remains but smoke, and fires roaming freely. Houses, gardens, fie…
Dave Eggers’s new novel, Contrapposto, transmits a deep understanding of the impulse to make art—to study, practice, commit to making art on a regular basis, to exhibit and sell y…
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac)…
More heavy-hitters descending on our bookstores this morning: Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco, Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto, and Leila Slimani’s I’ll Take the Fire are only to …
Back when the administration of Barack Obama was negotiating a nuclear agreement with Iran, I asked National Security Council officials why they were expending economic leverage p…
President Xi Jinping is on a rare visit to North Korea, where he commits to deeper cooperation with Kim Jong Un.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has wrapped up a two-day visit to Pyongyang, his first official trip to North Korea since 2019. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pulled out all the sto…
For thousands of years, humans have pondered the meaning of our existence, or of whether existence has any objective meaning at all. Modern thoughts have ranged from philosophers …
Dutch households are throwing away less food, but the decline has slowed and the Netherlands is on course to miss its 2030 target, according to the food advice agency Voedingscent…
Donald Trump said that he’s in the ‘final throes’ of a deal with Iran that could be signed in the next ‘two or three days’, after the recent escalation in attacks.
European leaders launched a new peace initiative for Ukraine on Sunday night when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Mac…
High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the middle of explaining, “though that’s not th…