Eid Mubarak! The spring weather is finally sticking around and starting to crack all our shells here in NYC, and it’s a tide lifting all boats. It’s the weather for catching up, and there’s nothing more perfect than walking a Read more >
The world turns, the sun shines. Spring is coming. We at Lit Hub are taking stock this Friday. We’re celebrating old faves, from actors to garnishes. We’re reading and scheming with better weather in mind. James Folta’s rose of the Read more >
A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at American schools. Those who have been paying attention to the Read more >
After months of bargaining and a long strike in 2022-2023, the HarperCollins Union’s membership voted “overwhelmingly” to ratify a new contract. New pay increases will bring the “lowest annual compensation” for junior employees up to $57,000 for a 38-hour week, Read more >
For the past ten years, the Brooklyn Public Library has played host to a highly niche adult sleepover: the Night in the Library. The annual festival amounts to a series of free public teach-ins, typically gathered around a theme. Last Read more >
Today, the finalists for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, which aims to encourage “raw creative talent worldwide,” were announced. The prize, which is worth £20,000, is open to works of fiction, poetry, and drama published in English by a Read more >
Well, “great-great grandson,” to be technical about it. Jonah Freud, heir to the founder of psychoanalysis, is taking London by storm. The entrepreneur recently linked to Lily Allen is one of the two impresarios behind Reference Point, a London bookshop Read more >
A cargo ship carrying the full print runs of two forthcoming comics from Fantagraphics Books was hit by an Iranian missile in the Strait of Hormuz, according to ICv2 and a post by Fantagraphics co-founder Mike Catron. Catron posted on Read more >
Oh, Oscars. You’re either a trivial night celebrating our country’s worst ideals, or a magical ceremony in thrall to our angels. We hate you, we love you. We love to hate you. We love, especially, to have hot takes on Read more >
Today, in a ceremony at the University Aula in the Norwegian city of Bergen, the Holberg Prize announced Lyndal Roper, a scholar of early European history and the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford emeritus, as its Read more >
It’s the last week of a relentless winter, God willing. One more 30-degree day on the horizon, but who’s counting? Let’s count the books instead: there’s a great new cascade of literature today, a healthy selection of both nonfiction and Read more >
Earlier this month, The Cut launched a new vertical, “Oh Baby,” with an eye toward aggravating one demographic: the ambivalent prospective parent. Over a week, readers were treated to a raft of anxious baby content. There was this piece about Read more >
It’s been a week of welcome change, in terms of temps and altitudes. We at Lit Hub are seeing familiar climes from fresh angles. Jonny Diamond is grateful for last week’s voyage to AWP, that apex stateside literary conference. In Baltimore, Read more >
Grammarly has quickly rolled back a controversial software feature after intense backlash. The short-lived feature was called “Expert Review,” and offered AI-generated writing advice delivered via sock puppet versions of living and dead writers, all created without their permission. The Read more >
In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new adaptation of Plath’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Bell Jar. Read more >
The Key launched with an essay by the new magazine’s editor in chief Sara Yasin called “It’s Not Complicated.” The essay is part reflection, part media criticism, part thesis statement for the publication, and Yasin’s opening line rolls all of Read more >
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