In another case of unbridled tech utopianism, the director of the Internet Archive—a non-profit website that makes ebooks freely available to anyone with the internet—is complaining that Penguin Random House wants them to remove Art Spiegelman’s Maus from their collection, Read more >
Has any contemporary author played versions of themselves in more movies than Salman Rushdie? (This is a rhetorical question; please do not email me.) As a repeat (and repeat, and repeat) viewer of the all-time great rom-com Bridget Jones’s Diary, I Read more >
It’s no great secret that Iris Murdoch loved a drink (and I’m not just talking about a wee sweet sherry on Boxing Day). And as someone who loved a drink, it makes an awful lot of sense she loved pubs. Read more >
I sincerely hope you have fun brunch plans this weekend because Sunday is Galentine’s Day! In case you haven’t seen Parks and Recreation in a while (reasonable, since they took it off Netflix a while back) here’s a refresher: according to Read more >
At this point in the year, you may be itching for spring—but it’s still February and there’s still some cold for us to endure. But no matter what it may feel like when you put your foot in a snowbank, Read more >
We once again have to point out that you cannot actually “steal” from a little free library. And you should definitely not get the cops involved if you think someone is “stealing” the explicitly free things you’ve put out. Little Read more >
Here’s something to tide you over while you wait for the Dakota Johnson-helmed Persuasion Netflix adaptation: this month, a musical adaptation of Persuasion begins its run at Kingston’s Rose Theatre. Adapted by Jeff James and James Yeatman, the adaptation’s soundtrack Read more >
Because you can never have enough gorgeous libraries to imagine yourself visiting: Condition_Lab’s new Pingtan Book House library in Pingtan, China, built by working closely with local carpenters and CUHK architecture students, is a luminous, organic structure with a matrix Read more >
Today marks 141 years since the death of Fyodor Dostoevsky, who died of a pulmonary hemorrhage at age 59. But for a terrifying month, Dostoevsky anticipated a very different death date: December 22, 1849, before Crime and Punishment, before The Read more >
To be clear, all children’s books that mythologize political figures are bad. (Sorry to the well-meaning relative that gifted my daughter a boxed set of “lil feminist” board books, but Cleopatra only “said girls rule” in the most literal sense.) Read more >
If you’ve been paying attention to local news in the past year, you’ve likely noticed the concerning wave of book bans sweeping the nation. Books by authors of color; books that acknowledge historical atrocities; books featuring LGBTQ+ characters; sex education Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced its inaugural selected titles for its new Science + Literature program. Supported by a three-year $525,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the program recognizes three books each year and aims to foster Read more >
Today we’re celebrating the 194th birthday of Jules Verne—novelist, poet, playwright, and, as it turns out, seer. Often described as the “father of science fiction,” Verne accurately predicted the invention of (and many details about) the submarine in 20,000 Leagues Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Iain Reid’s new novel, We Spread, which will be published by Scout Press in September. The I’m Thinking of Ending Things author’s latest work is described by the publisher as a Read more >
As the Hub’s fearless leader Emily Temple wrote in the innocent days of 2017, “Hollywood would basically be irrelevant without books.” And while much has changed over the past five years, that statement, at least, still stands: the 94th Academy Read more >
A history-making moment from my favorite film of the year: Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s sharp, beautiful adaptation of the Haruki Murakami short story, is the first Japanese film ever to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Drive My Read more >
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