On this day in 1926, Alison Lurie was born. Lurie, a folklorist, children’s literature scholar, and the author of 10 novels, died last December at 94. I first encountered her work a few years ago, when I was poking around Read more >
If you’ve been paying attention to the news this week, you surely know about Texas’s newly enacted abortion ban. According to the Texas Tribune, the bill, which went into effect on Wednesday, bans abortions as early as six weeks into Read more >
Over three years since the series’s announcement, a trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series has finally been released—and if we go by fans’ reactions, it was worth the wait. In the series, Read more >
If you take her characters’ opinion as the truth, Sally Rooney hates book events. In Beautiful World, Where Are You, the character Alice—a successful young Irish novelist who has recently moved to a small town, hm, who does this remind Read more >
On this day in 1977, Toni Morrison’s bestselling novel Song of Solomon was published. The narrative follows Macon “Milkman” Dead III, the son of the richest Black family in his Midwestern town. At a young age, Milkman learns that humans Read more >
You know what we all really deserve? Some new, unapologetically horny television. Even better if it’s horny literary television. Apparently, this is what we will soon receive in the form of Netflix’s adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Though the book, Bridgerton."">Read more >
During the pandemic, my apartment has filled up with books. There are books on the floor. There are books under the couch. There are books in boxes and books in tote bags. There are books in piles in the closet. Read more >
The IP adaptation boom continues apace, this time with something fun: Alicia Keys is adapting her song “Girl on Fire” into a young adult graphic novel about a 14-year-old girl, Lolo Wright, and her telekinetic powers. Girl on Fire, co-written Read more >
Acclaimed writers have been migrating to Substack in droves—and the latest to do so is Salman Rushdie. Rushdie will host his new work—including reviews, personal essays, and new, original fiction—on his Substack, Salman’s Sea of Stories. Some posts will be Read more >
The headlines about the benefits of reading are seemingly endless: according to various studies, reading makes you happier, less stressed, more socially adept, better at entrepreneurship, healthier, hotter, and “more awesome”. The logic behind several of these claims is that Read more >
It’s back-to-school season, which is good news for all the “heterodox thinkers” whose bread and butter is writing about the dangers of campus wokeness run amuck. Of course, in today’s newsletter-dominated media landscape, they might find themselves in need of Read more >
By now, you’ve probably seen the celebratory headlines: the new version of Candyman directed by Nia DaCosta, a reboot of the 1992 cult classic, has made cinematic history. According to People, DaCosta is the first Black female director to debut at Read more >
Sarah Manguso, whose nonfiction work 300 Arguments was called “the perfect book, with no gristle on it” by The New Republic, is publishing her eighth book and first novel with Hogarth in February. The novel has already been called “a Read more >
Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Gallery/Saga Press) “Readers will be drawn in by the effortless storytelling and Jade’s unique cadence. This is a methodically paced story where every detail both entertains and matters, and the expertly rendered Read more >
The last few summers have been labeled, variously and one after another, the summer of hot girls; white boys; hot vaccines; blob girls; tinned fish; and innumerable others. Summer trends come and go, but one summer concept has endured through Read more >
Here’s another place I wish I were right now: Polish duo Bartlomiej Kraciukand and Marta Puchalska-Kraciuk have designed the “Bookworm cabin,” located in the woods a few dozen miles outside Warsaw, for, yes, bookworms who want to catch up on Read more >
Attn: small presses! Republic of Consciousness has announced the launch of a new prize, which seeks to support presses in the US and Canada publishing eighteen or fewer books each year. The 2022 prize cycle will open this October, and Read more >
Today, Riverhead announced that Marlon James’s next novel, Moon Witch, Spider King—the follow-up to his New York Times-bestselling Black Leopard, Red Wolf—will be published on February 15, 2022. It’s a follow-up, but not exactly a sequel. Here’s the book’s official Read more >
If you’re one of those people who can’t seem to stop rewatching New Girl because of the laughter and general levity it always brings, perhaps you would like this Instagram account that shares screenshots from the beloved show, out of context. Read more >
Haruki Murakami is not pleased with the way the Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, is handling the pandemic, the AP reports. This Sunday, on Murakami’s monthly radio show, he criticized Suga’s optimistic rhetoric around the pandemic. Just before the Tokyo Read more >
