Here's everything that's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's everything that's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | April 11, 2025

<em>Drop</em> is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age

Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age

The Film Excels at Dramatizing the Practical Dangers of Living in a Digital World

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 11, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of <em>The Stacks</em>, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of The Stacks, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

Featuring Jonny Diamond, Traci Thomas, Olivia Rutigliano, Dan Sheehan, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

How <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans

How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans

Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs on Their Shared Love For the TV Cult Favorite

By Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs | April 11, 2025

The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

Moeen Farrokhi Considers the Spaces Between Language and Experience

By Moeen Farrokhi | April 11, 2025

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Abolitionists and Confederates: On the Complex History of American Jews During the Civil War

By Richard Kreitner | April 11, 2025

Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

By Daryl Gregory | April 11, 2025

Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | April 11, 2025

Here are the winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

Here are the winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

By Literary Hub | April 10, 2025

The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

By James Folta | April 10, 2025

<em> Goodnight, Moon </em> is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children's book stamps.

Goodnight, Moon is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children's book stamps.

By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2025

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Ariel Courage Explores a Systematic Legacy of Environmental Contamination and Neglect in the United States

By Ariel Courage | April 10, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

“PEN America’s defense and advocacy must be rendered vigorously and equitably, regardless of who sits in power.”

By Dinaw Mengestu | April 10, 2025

Thomas Pynchon is publishing a new novel this fall.

Thomas Pynchon is publishing a new novel this fall.

By Emily Temple | April 9, 2025

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