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    Booker Prize Winner

    Booker Prize Winner Paul Lynch on the Fundamental Dignity of the Individual

    By Peter Murphy  November 27, 2023
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis

    By Taylor Dorrell  November 22, 2023
    2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

    “The Status Quo is Not an Option…” John Vaillant on Our Climate Future

    By Alex Clark  November 22, 2023
    American History

    How a Mutiny on the Somers Changed America

    By Richard Snow  November 21, 2023
    Literary Journals

    “We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review

    By Mark Haber  November 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2023 Booker Prize.

    By Emily Temple  November 20, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    John Vaillant’s “Fire Weather” has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Canada’s Giller Prize event interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 14, 2023
    Politics

    A Statement of Solidarity With Gaza From More Than 100 Literary Translators

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Roundtable

    Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Announcing this year’s winner of the $75,000 Cundill History Prize.

    By Literary Hub  November 8, 2023
    Open Letters

    Now is a Time to Speak:
    An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2023
    The Hub

    In a new Joan Didion biopic, “an AI Joan encounters a dystopia beyond her wildest anxiety dreams.”

    By Emily Temple  November 2, 2023
    The Hub

    Here’s the winner of the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize.

    By Literary Hub  October 31, 2023
    Excerpt

    Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

    By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
    Endings

    On the Ending of a Literary Journal

    By Freeman's   October 18, 2023
    Open Letter

    An Open Letter in Support of Adania Shibli From More Than 350 Writers, Editors, and Publishers

    By Literary Hub  October 17, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of the 2023 Kirkus Prize.

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the attempt on his life will be published next year.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the shortlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose.

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Read a 1957 review of Ayn Rand’s “excruciatingly awful” Atlas Shrugged.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 10, 2023
    The Hub

    bell hooks and Maxine Hong Kingston were among the winners at the American Book Awards.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 6, 2023
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    Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2023
    The Hub

    Read a 1962 review of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 21, 2023
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