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Happy Fall of Sauron Day!

On this day, approximately 6175 years ago, Frodo Baggins completed his quest to return the One Ring to the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged. The exact details have been muddled by time and legend—reports of Baggins’s ultimate Read more >

By Drew Broussard

Eight print(!) magazines that should be on your radar.

On a recent lark to New York’s storied newsstand, Casa Magazines, I was struck by a deep peace. There’s just something about that IRL weekly. Perhaps because unlike scrolling, rifling through pages is a soothing experience. In the best magazines, Read more >

By Brittany Allen

A Small Press Book We Love:
Provisionally Yours by Antanas Sileika

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By Molly Odintz

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

The wheel of the year continues, as ever, to turn, and, also, as ever, to feel at once too fast and too slow, a year in which there has been so much daily political chaos that it feels as if Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Here are the winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes.

The eight winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes excellence in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an unrestricted grant of Read more >

By Literary Hub

A Small Press Book We Love:
Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By Drew Broussard

These are the things that are getting us through this week.

The world is a vampire. Perhaps you’ve heard! But as doomerism serves none of us, I’ve been looking for the sunny side—if only to rustle up energy for the fights ahead. This being Lit Hub, we’re accustomed to getting our Read more >

By Brittany Allen

A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.

The great minds behind Cave Canem, the literary non-profit celebrating poets of the African diaspora, have commissioned a new study tracing the history of Black American arts organizations. “Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts and Service Read more >

By Brittany Allen

A Small Press Book We Love:
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By Julia Hass

Lapham's Quarterly is coming back.

Lapham’s Quarterly, the magazine of history and ideas founded by the legendary editor Lewis Lapham, who died in July of 2024, announced today that it will relaunch this year under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center Read more >

By Emily Temple

Here are the winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Tonight, in a ceremony at the New School in New York City, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2024 awards, narrowed down from a long list of finalists in six categories: Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, Read more >

By Literary Hub

A Small Press Book We Love:
Duplex by Kathryn Davis

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By Emily Temple

The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

The Climate Fiction Prize, a new award that means to acknowledge “the best novel-length work of fiction published in the UK engaging with the climate crisis,” has announced its first shortlist. A panel of industry judges assembled a “genre and Read more >

By Brittany Allen

A Small Press Book We Love:
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Trump is trying to destroy libraries.

Image from the New York Public Libraries Digital Collections The hogmen and shock troops of the Trump-Musk administration have gone after another essential and beloved mainstay of public life: libraries. Trump signed a broad executive order last Friday that puts Read more >

By James Folta

A Small Press Book We Love:
Children of the Ghetto by Elias Khoury

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By James Folta

Kristen Arnett! Amy Shearn! Emma Donoghue! 25 new books out today.

March has already been a month of manias and mind-boggling political moments, and I feel, as perhaps everyone nodding to the madcap political moment does, like a broken record. Still, I’ll say something else I always say, as it is Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn't get the message.

After a thorough excoriating by Democrats who are livid at his capitulation to Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has “postponed” his book tour. Hopefully he’ll use the time to do something about Trump’s unshackled authoritarianism. But I suspect he’s Read more >

By James Folta

A Small Press Book We Love:
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Macmillan is defending its new tech memoir, Careless People, against Meta's claims.

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams came out a few days ago, and is already making a huge splash. The book is one insider’s look at Facebook/Meta, and how tech Read more >

By James Folta