Kam Reads and Recs

Reading is arguably the most difficult task one must learn. To understand why it is difficult, one must understand the physiology of reading

Being invited to interview a writer that one admires is so rewarding, and I’m thrilled that I got the chance to speak with Zinzi Clemmons ab

From the colonial period to the end of the US Civil War, the rattlesnake sssssssymbolized everything from evil to unity and power.

In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical huma

In Ashton Politanoff’s second novel, tennis becomes a vehicle for exploring fatherhood and masculinity.

Not long ago, I was reading, in a magazine profile, a physical description of a person “who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, a

She rejected fascism not only by depicting what she endured in the Holocaust but also the tenderness of everyday Romani life.

First impressions shape outcomes before a word is spoken—and research shows those snap judgments are far from random.

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On May 18, 1922, the wealthy British art patrons Sydney and Viole

Despite a tightly controlled narrative, for some workers and artists, the mega-gallery’s downsizing has left more questions than answers.

'The Vampire Lestat' Episode 4 tees up the Great Conversion, and the rise of Akasha, mother of all vampires.

There is a dress in Muriel Spark’s novel The Girls of Slender Means (1963) that my memory has never quite shrugged off. It’s a dress by the

A recent report, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University, invites further intrusions on scholarly self-gover

Women writers from 1830 to 1926 turned to the short story for many reasons. In 1830, the short story was a relatively new genre and the firs