The Writers Guild of America issued a strongly worded statement Friday about Colbert’s cancellation. Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writers Guild of America has significant concerns that The Late Show’s cancellation is a Read more >
Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for American art.” According to the Foundation, the DAG Prize Read more >
The wheel of the year continues its slow, strange turn, a turning at once painfully glacial and precipitously swift. At the moment, the wheel has landed upon a morass of MAGA conspiracies, lurid revelations about the President’s relationship with an Read more >
There have been a few great covers for Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. There have also been a lot of bad ones. It makes sense: it’s a difficult book to represent—which means that when it’s done right, there’s a special kind of Read more >
This week, we’re fulfilling prophecies, and pledges to past selves. We bought the tickets and took the rides. Some of us into the archive. Some of us into the dungeon. And some of us out to greener pastures. Calvin Kasulke Read more >
Kylie Cheung’s forthcoming book Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans is a searing investigation into the intersecting structures that control the lives of women and pregnant people. In her introduction, Cheung writes that the book “is my best attempt to Read more >
I’ve updated this article to include Lander’s sonnet co-writer Chloe Chik, and links to previous sonnets Lander has performed. Brad Lander’s having a great summer. From bravely standing up to ICE thugs, to becoming best buddies with mayoral candidate Zohran Read more >
The Trump administration has moved to ban 596 books from schools that serve military children. This is in addition to all their ongoing support for state book bans. Though it’s uniquely upsetting because military schools can be seen as arms Read more >
In a recent report for The Guardian, the author Nneka M. Okona described the pull of historic literary sites. “I wanted to see more homes of the Black literary forefathers and foremothers, the ones I draw inspiration from in order Read more >
Last week a Silicon Valley startup announced a new kind of e-reader that you can wear on your face. The company Sol Reader, is creating books that are glasses, described as “a wearable e-reading device that resembles a pair of Read more >
It’s just about the middle of summer in a summer characterized by utter chaos, but I come bearing something rare in this era: good tidings. That is, the good news that new books are out today. Below, you’ll find twenty-three Read more >
The week after a long weekend always feels a tad longer than usual, but here it is: Friday. We’ve arrived. Whether the week crawled by or flew by for you, here are a few Venns to remind you what happened, Read more >
At a ceremony on Thursday night, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars was awarded the second annual Inside Literary Prize, the first-ever US-based literary award to be judged by currently incarcerated people. Readers from 15 prisons across 6 states and territories Read more >
This was a week for escapist coping. We lived off indie pop and indie movies. We dreamed of a throwback internet and healthier lungs. Molly Odintz has music to thank for making it to Friday. Specifically The Marías, who she Read more >
Image from South China Morning Post on YouTube Late in June, an entire city block in Shanghai stood up and walked back home. 8,270-tons of Shikumen style, brick row houses built in the 1920s, all 43,380 square feet from the Read more >
A recent Vulture piece considered the appeal of Substack. “Part promotional platform, part social-media site, part venue for rambling journal entries, Substack is attracting an increasing number of people who write literature for a living,” wrote Emma Alpern, before going Read more >
Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a private equity group. The local community rallied around The Samuels Read more >
Famously, Jane Austen disliked Bath, both when she visited it in 1799 and when she moved there with her family in 1801. But Bath loves Jane Austen: the city is now home to the Jane Austen Center, an annual Jane Read more >
Amongst all of the terrible and regressive decisions and shadow docket orders the Supreme Court spewed forth this term, there was a rare, small win for libraries and schools. The story got a little buried, but the Supreme Court ruled Read more >
It’s been a weird time for the papers of record. The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post have all made compromising to catastrophic judgment errors. Most recently, the former hyped a eugenicist to smear an elected candidate in the Read more >
