Wow. If my math is correct, there have been 34 seasons of The Simpsons. What the hell, man. One of the most popular recurring specials in the Show That Will Not Die has always been the annual Halloween Special—aka The Read more >
If you’ve ever spent time in a Facebook parents’ group, you know that aside from the occasional good pediatrician recommendation, they are absolute nightmarish cesspools of sleep-training blowups and decidedly un-gentle Gentle Parenting evangelism. Apparently, though—as there always is with Read more >
It was announced yesterday that Josh Hawley, the senator from Missouri who will always be remembered for fleeing the very crowd he’d recently egged on with a fist, has written a book called Manhood.* The book, to be published by Read more >
The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale is set to end after its sixth season (the fifth is set to debut on September 14), but fear not, strong-stomached fans of the Gilead universe: an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 2019 follow-up Read more >
The Poetry Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Pegasus Awards, including a sweeping expansion of its Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the prestigious lifetime achievement award normally given to one living poet each year. This year, 11 poets received Read more >
If you enjoy Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s particular brand of dour, techno-futuristic gobbledegook, well, you’ll probably be all over this upcoming series adaptation of William Gibson’s bestselling 2014 novel The Peripheral. Premiering next month, The Peripheral stars Chloë Grace Read more >
Amid all the terrible book (banning) news, it’s nice to find a small bright spot. Today, that brightness takes the form of 82-year-old Hamdallah Abdel Hafez, who has been collecting books for his community in Dakahlia, Egypt for the past Read more >
The Griffin Poetry Prize announced today it would combine two awards to create a single, $100,000 prize, making it the largest international prize for poetry. Previously, a judging panel awarded an International and a Canadian prize; those two will now Read more >
The Kirkus Prize, now in its ninth year, is one of the richest annual literary awards in the world with the winners in each of the three categories receiving $50,000. The 18 finalists for this year’s Kirkus Prize were chosen Read more >
I’ve noticed that poets on the internet typically inspire either rhapsodic Twitter-praise (often from other poets), or extreme annoyance. So it’s nice to see someone react to one in a slightly more concrete way (even if the poet in question Read more >
Now here’s a piece of literary adaptation news to get fired-up about. Kogonada—the critically-acclaimed, delightfully mysterious South Korean-American filmmaker and video essayist whose works include Columbus, After Yang, and Pachinko—is set to direct a limited series adaptation of R. O. Kwon’s Read more >
While it’s hard enough to keep up with government censorship here in the Land of the Free, things in Hong Kong aren’t looking great either. According to Agence France-Presse, a Hong Kong court today convicted five pro-democracy trade unionists of Read more >
Neil MacGregor, the chair of the judging panel for this year’s Booker Prize, announced its shortlist today. MacGregor said that in each of the six books on the shortlist, “the author has used language not just to tell us what Read more >
If you miss the feeling of going back to school, consider these free virtual literary events like a kind of literary lecture hall. * In Conversation: Jonathan Escoffery and Nicole Dennis-Benn September 7 @ 7pm EST To celebrate the release Read more >
Yeah, it sucks to return to work after a three-day weekend, but on the bright side: there’re only four grueling days ahead, and at least 22 new books coming out today to look forward to. * Maggie O’Farrell, The Marriage Read more >
In one more example of how climate change adversely affects those on the margins, record-breaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest this summer lead to “130 full- or partial-day closures due to heat” in the Seattle Public Library system. According to Read more >
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