5 Books Making News This Week: Food, Family, and Fairy Tale Horror

5 Books Making News This Week: Food, Family, and Fairy Tale Horror

Amy Thielen, Sherman Alexie, and Victor LaValle

By Jane Ciabattari | June 27, 2017

The Rise of Women-Only Literary Spaces, UK Edition

The Rise of Women-Only Literary Spaces, UK Edition

The First in a Series on Safe Publishing Spaces for Women Around the World

By Thea Hawlin | June 26, 2017

Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?

Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?

How an Oddball Nerd Hobby Grew into a Semi-Professional Sport

By Dwyer Murphy | June 26, 2017

Is <em>Watchmen</em> Coming to TV?

Is Watchmen Coming to TV?

And Other Literary Film and TV News From This Week

By Emily Temple | June 23, 2017

Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

The Author of Party Girls Die in Pearls on Trump, Brexit, and Getting Political

By Plum Sykes | June 23, 2017

Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

Dave Boling Follows a Thread of Family History to Tell Untold Stories

By Dave Boling | June 23, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

An American Bookseller Reports from a Glamorous Italian Bookfair

By Jenn Witte | June 23, 2017

Field Notes From My Dementia

By Gerda Saunders | June 22, 2017

No Frills

By Lit Hub Excerpts | June 22, 2017

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

A New Book Traces These Origins to NYC's 1970s Financial Crisis

By Isaac Kaplan | June 22, 2017

Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?

Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?

Enheduanna is Revered by Ancient Alien Conspiracy Theorists—But Few Others

By Charles Halton | June 22, 2017

Remembering Prodigy, a Fiercely Independent Artist

Remembering Prodigy, a Fiercely Independent Artist

Ibrahim Ahmad on Collaborating with a Hip-Hop Great

By Ibrahim Ahmad | June 22, 2017

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Katie MacBride on Guns, De-Escalation, and the Need for Funding

By Katie MacBride | June 21, 2017

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

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