Literary Hub

Here are the finalists for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards.

What to Read Before and After Seeing Loving Highsmith

Readings on the Life, Works, and Obsessions of Patricia Highsmith

Olaf Olafsson Knows When to Stop Writing: Before Depletion

The Author of Touch Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

“No freedom in these ruins.” Four Poems of War by Marianna Kiyanovska

Translated, from the Ukrainian, by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

“An Open Heart, Armor Down.” Maud Newton and Ann Leary in Conversation

On Motivation, Family Histories, and Sleuthing Talents

Cover Reveal: See the cover for Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel, The Nursery.

“The System is Designed to Prohibit Change.” On Hollywood and Women’s Ambition and Complicity

Isabel Kaplan and Alison B. Hart, Authors of NSFW and The Work Wife, in Conversation

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood and Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing from the Vietnamese Diaspora

Also Discussed: Sex Scenes, Reincarnation, and Publishing’s Exoticization Problem

Writing Advice from Rachel Yoder: Take a Break, Hug a Tree

“Maybe not writing now is actually success.”

“The Sky is Innocent.” New Writing by Ukrainian Poet Ostap Slyvynsky

Translated From the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk