As an astrobiologist I spend a lot of my time working in the lab with samples from some of the most extreme places on Earth, investigating how life might survive on other worlds in our solar system ...

In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years ...

Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in ...

Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and ...

What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the ...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book ...

Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, ...

On the evening of July 31, 1914, after their fruitless visit to the foreign ministry to argue for French neutrality in the ...

Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense, and he’s one of my favorite classic film directors, creating some ...

Author Andreas Malm has been denied entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds that his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good,” according to The Guardian and Al ...

I’m angry at MAGA leaders every day for the lies and manipulation and wreckage they’ve wrought on the very people who voted ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the summer of 1944, news of an exciting new ...