What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years?

What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years?

The Bracket You Didn’t Know You Needed

By Literary Hub | April 13, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s <em>Arcadia</em> Premieres in London

This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London

“It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”

By Literary Hub | April 13, 2026

Aja Gabel on Love and Grief

Aja Gabel on Love and Grief

“There we are, in the blinding brightness of loss, together.”

By Aja Gabel | April 13, 2026

In Pursuit of Genius In Troubling Times: On Philip Owens’s <em>Picture of Nobody</em>

In Pursuit of Genius In Troubling Times: On Philip Owens’s Picture of Nobody

Allen Bratton Considers the Timelessness of the Artist's Struggle For Relevance and Survival

By Allen Bratton | April 13, 2026

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | April 10, 2026

Here’s what’s been making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s been making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2026

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  • Country People
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  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
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  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

Ten fictional professors ranked by plausibility.

By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2026

One great poem to read today: Mark Doty’s “Visitation”

By Calvin Kasulke | April 10, 2026

Molly Crabapple on History as a Necromantic Art

By Molly Crabapple | April 10, 2026

How <em>Amazing Stories</em> Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2026

Meet These Delightful Bookshop Cats (and One Dog!)

Meet These Delightful Bookshop Cats (and One Dog!)

Daphne du Meowier Introduces Us to Just Some of the Pets That Populate Bookstores Across the Country

By Daphne du Meowier | April 10, 2026

On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

Virginia McGee Richards on the Building of the New Cut Canal

By Virginia McGee Richards | April 10, 2026

One Person’s Trash... On the Joys of Collecting Junk

One Person’s Trash... On the Joys of Collecting Junk

Kate Bowler Considers Her Son’s Obsession in Light of Her Own Struggle to Find Happiness

By Kate Bowler | April 10, 2026

On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East

On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East

Steven W. Thrasher Considers How the Threats of Empire Are Themselves Acts of Violence

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 10, 2026

Here are the winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes.

Here are the winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes.

By Literary Hub | April 9, 2026

One great poem to read today: Michael Ondaatje’s “To a Sad Daughter”

One great poem to read today: Michael Ondaatje’s “To a Sad Daughter”

By Jonny Diamond | April 9, 2026

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