Ah yes, gaslighting. It’s been with us since time immemorial, but like plenty of other terrible things, it was particularly big this year. “The increase in dictionary lookups for gaslighting is striking,” says Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s Editor at Large. “In our Read more >
In days of yore—that is, my childhood in the paper-mill town of Mexico, Maine—a labor strike looked like an ugly affair. Picketing men in steel-toed boots screamed themselves hoarse at every shift change, their righteous anger rising into a sky Read more >
New books, or, perfect companions that, when held directly in front of one’s face, might act as a conversational shield against certain family members this Thanksgiving. * Allie Rowbottom, Aesthetica (Soho Press) “Much will be made of how perfectly Aesthetica captures Read more >
Because we believe in democracy here at Lit Hub dot com, I felt it was particularly important that you all knew about this upcoming vote: Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year. Yes, that’s right. YOU have a say. For Read more >
Seriously. They already have too many. They also have too many totes, “old book” candles, library card socks, custom bookmarks, LED book lights. Any number of these is basically too many, except the totes, which don’t count because usually they’re Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Jenn Shapland’s Thin Skin, a collection of essays forthcoming from Pantheon Books in August 2023. This collection is Shapland’s latest since her debut memoir, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, which was a Read more >
It’s not hard to be the less-shitty Musk sibling at this point, so I won’t bang the drum too hard for Tosca Musk and her streaming service Passionflix, which adapts romance novels and distributes them via its streaming platform. Still, Read more >
Bob Dylan has once again enraged his core fanbase by going electric. Well, to be more specific, his publisher, Simon & Schuster, got into hot water this weekend after hundreds of fans figured out their one-of-a-kind, hand-signed editions of Dylan’s Read more >
On Friday, Longwood University announced the finalists for the 2022 John Dos Passos Prize, which is the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university, and which honors “one of America’s most talented but underappreciated writers. . . Read more >
We all know books have the power to move us to tears, and that those tears have the power to move books. Last year, with the sudden rise on popularity of certain titles, the publishing industry realized that BookTok might Read more >
Katherine Rundell has won the UK’s £50,000 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, a biography of the poet. Chair of judges Caroline Sanderson said that the decision had been unanimous. “Exquisitely rendered, its Read more >
As you may have heard—if you pay any attention at all to the literary universe—Joan Didion’s estate sale, “An American Icon: Property From the Collection of Joan Didion,” hosted by Stair Galleries, was open for bidding November 2 through November Read more >
While simping for politicians is always embarrassing, I do have a soft spot for Bernie Sanders, whose anger about the conditions faced by majority of non-rich people in this country strikes me as genuine, and necessary. This is also the Read more >
In a brisk awards ceremony (that came in right on time) this year’s National Book Awards, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, have been bestowed upon the following! FICTION: Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch NONFICTION: Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Read more >
Today, the first full-size statue of Virginia Woolf was unveiled by the river at Richmond-upon-Thames, where she lived from 1914-1924. “There are so few women represented in sculpture,” sculptor Laury Dizengremel told The Guardian. “I find it quite remarkable that Read more >
In response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new and ongoing sanctions against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry has released a list of 100 Canadians citizens who are no longer allowed entry into Russia, including… Margaret Atwood. According to the Read more >
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