Here's the shortlist for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

Here's the shortlist for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

By Literary Hub | September 11, 2023

What do cats and poets have in common?

What do cats and poets have in common?

By Emily Temple | September 11, 2023

Exclusive: See the cover for Juliet Escoria's new book, <em>You Are the Snake.</em>

Exclusive: See the cover for Juliet Escoria's new book, You Are the Snake.

By Literary Hub | September 11, 2023

How Jonathan Raban's <em>Passage to Juneau</em> Decolonizes Nature Writing

How Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

Robert MacFarlane on Indigenous Pantheons, the Western Notion of the Sublime, and Raban's Disruptive Language

By Robert Macfarlane | September 11, 2023

Learning to Write About Pets When You Aren't An Animal Person

Learning to Write About Pets When You Aren't An Animal Person

LaToya Watkins on Loss, the Natural World as a Mirror, and the Reassuring Blessing of Nonhuman Companionship

By LaToya Watkins | September 11, 2023

The Remarkable Story of the Horsewomen Warriors of Afghanistan

The Remarkable Story of the Horsewomen Warriors of Afghanistan

Pardis Mahdavi on Unearthing a Story of Ferocity and Survival

By Pardis Mahdavi | September 11, 2023

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Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

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Lang Leav on Fiction and Authenticity

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Michael Harriot on White Sugarcoating

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20,000 Dublin Marathon finishers will receive this W. B. Yeats medal, complete with fake quote.

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By Dan Sheehan | September 8, 2023

Exclusive: See the cover for Ananda Lima's <em>CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil</em>.

Exclusive: See the cover for Ananda Lima's CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.

By Literary Hub | September 8, 2023

Pride, Prejudice, and <em>The Bachelor</em>

Pride, Prejudice, and The Bachelor

Chiara Dello Joio on Reality Television's Marriage Plot

By Chiara Dello Joio | September 8, 2023

The Imagination of Literary Spaces: On Contemporary Literary and Artistic Outreach

The Imagination of Literary Spaces: On Contemporary Literary and Artistic Outreach

Viniyanka Prasad Profiles Organizations Creating Communities for Marginalized Writers

By Viniyanka Prasad | September 8, 2023

30 Years Later, <em>The Age of Innocence</em> Remains Scorsese’s Most Subtle Deconstruction of Misogyny

30 Years Later, The Age of Innocence Remains Scorsese’s Most Subtle Deconstruction of Misogyny

The Storied Director Found His Match in Edith Wharton

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