M. Gessen, the prolific author with bylines in The New York Times and The New Yorker, has launched a new podcast in partnership with Serial Productions and the Times. “The Idiot” follows Gessen’s cousin Allen, a sketchy business man. “If Read more >
Stephen Colbert, the recently defenestrated late night host, is co-writing a new Lord of the Rings movie. A long time Tolkien fan—real ones will remember his cameo in 2013’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug—Mr. Colbert will be pulling a Read more >
NYC bodegas are special places. You can grab all manner of essentials and snacks, order your most idiosyncratic breakfast sandwich, pet a cat, and catch up with a guy who only knows you as “boss” but has seen you at Read more >
If you’ve talked to me in the last couple of weeks, you’ve no doubt heard me gush about Satyajit Ray’s exquisite Days and Nights in the Forest, a funny and touching Bengali language Indian film that I’ve now seen twice Read more >
The six book shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction has been announced, an impressive collection that includes memoir, contemporary politics, biography, writing on health and science, and more. The prize aims to elevate women’s underrepresented voices in non-fiction, Read more >
As the Hong Kong Free Press reported this morning, four booksellers in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of selling “seditious titles.” The store in question is Book Punch, a Sham Shui Po bookstore owned and operated by Pong Read more >
This year, the United Kingdom has made books a special cause. The National Year of Reading is a twelve month, government-sponsored campaign to get the citizenry hyped about reading for pleasure. And as our stateside feds scheme to restrict library Read more >
Sure, your parents warned you not to do something only because your friends want you to, but sometimes maybe you should. This week, I’m thankful that Don DeLillo has finally relented to peer pressure and let his 1980 book Amazons, Read more >
Officially: it is spring. Does that mean we can finally put our winter coats and scarves away? Time will tell. Until then, until we know for sure the snow has gone for good, let’s just count our blessings and look Read more >
I can’t speak for your algorithm, but mine is a sea of tortoise-shell headbands and musings on the return of minimalism. This is care of Love Story, the latest entry in the Ryan Murphy multiverse. This new series depicts the whirlwind romance Read more >
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 >
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