A list of works by or about Jill Lepore, American historian.

Books Non-fiction

Novels

Articles and essays

The politics of Planned Parenthood. History of the U.S. income tax.

Online version is titled "Why inequality persists in America". Title in the online table of contents is "The myth of Magna Carta". Title in the online table of contents is "Sex and the Supreme Court".

Title in the online table of contents is "Will free wi-fi destroy the party system?".

Online version is titled "A tale of two conventions". Online version is titled "The atomic origins of climate science". Online version is titled "The strange and twisted life of 'Frankenstein'".

Online version is titled "What 2018 looked like fifty years ago". Online version is titled "Are robots competing for your job?". Online version is titled "Confessions of a Presidential candidate". Online version is titled "The Lingering of Loss".

Online version is titled "Is staying in staying safe?".

Online version is titled "When Black history is unearthed, who gets to speak for the dead?". Online version is titled "After the failed Senate bill on abortion". Online version is titled "Bicycles have evolved. Have we?".

—"The Chit-Chatbot: Is talking with a machine a conversation?", The New Yorker, 7 October 2024, pp. 12–16. —"Robot Lit: The prehistory of A.I. slop", The New Yorker, 25 May 2026, pp. 54–58. "Machine[-produced] junk [literature] has become known as A.I. slop – 'slop' was Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year – and it's everywhere, gumming up the works, slowing down traffic, and making a god-awful mess." (p. 54.)

Critical studies and reviews of Lepore's work

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