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 >
In case you missed it, The Chicago Sun-Times and a bunch of other papers got duped into running a reading list full of made-up, AI slop. (Some of the books are real—Bonjour Tristesse, Beautiful Ruins, Dandelion Wine, Call Me By Read more >
Last month, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2025 shortlist. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on June 4th, and will receive C$130,000. Each 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 >
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 >
May is nearing its end, and this has been a month that once again will be remembered most, perhaps, for its political and socioeconomic horrors, for its ever-larger steps towards American fascism. In these frightening, flummoxing times, art soothes, clarifies, Read more >
Happy spring, fellow travelers. This week we’re back to basics with the good stuff. Physical books supplied by physical people are bringing us lots of joy. And when the pages don’t compel, we’re moving our bodies around. In the wake Read more >
Another big week in book news, with new releases and faux releases. Don’t get caught unaware if anyone asks you what you thought of Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende or The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir. Have a great long 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 story, Read more >
Today, Canadian writer Michael Crummey’s “dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations” was announced as the winner of this year’s Dublin Literary Award. Selected from a shortlist of six novels, The Adversary took home the top prize. The Dublin Read more >
