David Means, the author of six story collections (including Assorted Fire Events and Two Nurses, Smoking), has won this year’s PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Since 1998, the award has been given in honor Read more >
Image from Reuters/Mike Blake It’s one of those weeks that already feels like a month: the Gaza relief ship Madleen has been illegally seized in the middle of their peace mission by Israel, Trump and his hogmen have put a Read more >
June rolls on, and I come bearing tidings, as always, of exciting new books out today to consider. (One of these, the self-styled queer-chaotic anthology Be Gay, Do Crime actually came out last week; I missed it last week by Read more >
Omar Hamad is a Palestinian writer and pharmacist bearing witness to genocide in his home of Gaza. He writes about stolen love, safety and peace, and the reality of life on the ground. * I walk barefoot on the embers Read more >
Happy June! Hope your summer is getting off to a good start! For me, summer means batching a ton of cold brew and keeping myself constantly slathered in SPF ∞. Speaking of getting roasted, the worst people in the world Read more >
You’re in luck, readers. We have a lot to love this Friday. The theme this week is “Forever Young.” We at Lit Hub are getting our kicks in the rearview mirror, reminiscing on everything from our first chaotic friend groups Read more >
You may know Tove Jansson, the Finnish artist, by her literary fiction. Her bespoke illustrations. Or just her pioneering life as a queer multi-hyphenate, carving out a corner of the sky in post-war Europe. There’s a lot to know her Read more >
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2025 winner, chosen from an illustrious shortlist of five. Karen Leeder has taken home the top prize for her translation, from Read more >
Edmund White has passed away, and the world has lost a pioneering and passionate writer. He wrote beautifully and frankly about sex and gay life during his prolific career as a novelist and journalist, and prided himself on a view Read more >
Jane is in the air lately. This year, Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice turns twenty, which is the same age Keira Knightley was when she starred as the cool girl’s Lizzy Bennet. A new feast of a French film, Jane Read more >
Today, the Women’s Prize Trust announced Bernardine Evaristo as the recipient of the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, a unique prize meant to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. All authors who had been previously longlisted, Read more >
Book recommendations are not all created equal. Sometimes when I tell a friend what they should read next, I feel sure they’ll like it. But when I get a recommendation? Well, sometimes it sends me in the opposite emotional direction: Read more >
The summer is here! And while that message is perhaps inescapably bittersweet this year, what with the world being on fire in ways both metaphorical and all-too-literal, it remains a truth universally acknowledged that a day of delightful weather can Read more >
This week, Wes Anderson’s latest concoction, The Phoenician Scheme, hits screens. And thanks to this latest work from a pointillist who loves his reference texts, I’m thinking about Anderson’s prop books. Wes has romanticized the literary arts for almost his Read more >
David Lynch has made frequent appearances on Lit Hub over the years—my colleague Brittany wrote a touching ode to his work when he died—and now you have the chance to own some of Lynch’s things, thanks to an upcoming auction Read more >
A theme of this week is deliberate regression. We’re going—excuse me while I don my best Huey Lewis voice—back in tiiiime, to child-like wonder, honest delusion, and an era before hi-def digital graphics. Drew Broussard is all about this dungeon-crawl Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short Read more >
June is here, which means that summer has also arrived. And even in a horrific world—or especially in one—there is power in small comforts, including warmer, sunnier days, and what better than to have a lovely new book at your Read more >
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died. The Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic was 87. The “towering giant of Kenyan letters” broke through in 1964, with the publication of his first novel, Weep Not, Child. The bold debut, nurtured under his Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short Read more >
