The name of the game this week is games and growth. We at Lit Hub are splitting the biscuit between new beginnings and alternate histories. We’re getting out, and looking back. Jonny Diamond is welcoming spring Mary Lennox-style—i.e., with the holiness transition deserves. Read more >
I’ve been one of the folks running out Best Literary Film Adaptation bracket this week—have you voted yet?—and so I’ve missed a few of this week’s stories. Let’s catch up together with some Venns. This is a sidebar, but there’s Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
In a ceremony on Wednesday night, the Whiting Foundation announced the ten recipients of the 2026 Whiting Award for Emerging Writers. The award comes with a $50,000 purse to recognize the recipients’ “outstanding accomplishments and promise,” and is often seen Read more >
Today, the Cleveland Foundation announced the winners of its annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the country’s “only endowed juried prize dedicated to literature that contributes to our understanding of race and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.” “It Read more >
Yesterday, the Center for the Art of Translation announced plans to open a permanent location in downtown San Francisco. Founded in 2000 in the living room of translator Olivia Sears, the Center has long been a nomadic institution with no Read more >
Since its founding in 1923, Time magazine has been crowning the world’s pioneers and power brokers. The pub’s annual list of most influential people is more than 30 years old. And today, we get the 2026 edition. Though “influential,” is Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
For the past hundred years, the coveted Guggenheim fellowship has granted funds “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form.” Today, the Guggenheim Foundation announced its class of 2026. Given Read more >
One of the locations where the hit hockey romance Heated Rivalry was shot is available to rent, if you’re trying to turn your weekend away into more of a cosplay situation, according to Travel + Leisure. The Barlochan Cottage is Read more >
I’ve worked on a number of brackets now for Lit Hub, and I don’t think I’ve seem as much internal contention over what to include than this one. We’ve got a lot of opinions on film adaptations over here. What Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
A new treasure trove of a week: Lena Dunham’s long-awaited second memoir is out today, as well as Maria Semple’s first novel in almost ten years, Go Gentle. Solvej Balle’s viral “On the Calculation of Volume” series continues with Book Read more >
What is it about the campus novel? Even for those of us who didn’t attend Ivy-drenched Northeastern institutions, the genre appeals. Yet the novel that truly captures the undergraduate brain—with its suite of neuroses and affectations—is rare. Elif Batuman’s The Idiot—and her 2022 Read more >
I mean no disrespect to my estimable colleagues who’ve done the hard work of putting this bracket together, but since they’ve asked the staff for input on adaptations that should have been on the list, I’m here to say it’s straight-up Read more >
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