Image from Deadline & BBC Now here’s a mystery: how is a writer who died in 1976 teaching a new writing course? With a little help from academia and a little help from AI. That’s right, it’s not Poirot, but Read more >
Happy May Day, comrades! Today we celebrate international worker’s rights, and the rites of spring according to ye olde Pagan calendar. I hope all of you are clocking out right at five today and spending some time in the sun. Read more >
“Why I’m leaving Twitter” is, at this point, an irritating genre of post. Nonetheless, it’s important to go on record in the face of Elon Musk’s vacuous amorality and its concomitant amplification of actual Nazis (not to mention his relentlessly 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 >
Spring is springing, and that means our public spaces will soon be teeming with all kinds of readers. As the air starts to warm, readers will begin to emerge from their hibernations, bleary eyed and untanned, to alight on benches, Read more >
May is here, and, with it, a bevy of new books to be excited about (and, difficult as it can be not to succumb to the Sisyphean rhythm of doomscrolling, new books are usually better places to turn our attention, Read more >
This fall, Phillip Pullman—the man behind the His Dark Materials trilogy—will publish a final dispatch from his much-beloved multiverse. The Rose Field will cap the adventures of Lyra Silvertongue, the flinty, brilliant heroine who makes the mother of dragons look Read more >
It’s the final Tuesday of April, a month characterized by chaos and Eliotesque cruelties alike, but there is more brightness in the (literal) skies, if nothing else, and to accompany this much-needed sun in a time of strangedark, I come Read more >
A new press will be “focusing initially” on publishing male writers, reported The Bookseller today. Finally, a space for guys to be guys. The press is called Conduit Books, and will be run by novelist and critic Jude Cook. There’s Read more >
We already knew Pedro Pescal, gimlet-eyed star of The Last of Us and several buzzy action franchises, was a sweetheart. His Hollywood reputation stays stainless in a sea of divas. His little sister Lux is “incredibly proud” of him. And Read more >
This week we at Lit Hub sought deep focus, wise Dad energy, and salt. We celebrated surprises and anniversaries. We looked spring in the face and said, do your worst. Speaking of the season. Drew Broussard is “reallllly digging” a Read more >
Tomorrow, Saturday 4/26, is Independent Bookstore Day! And while every day can and should be Independent Bookstore Day (stop buying books from Amazon, stop linking to books on Amazon, stop posting the Amazon sales and the B&N sales on your Read more >
This political moment in America has been chilling for free speech and dissent, but like so many things about America, this government and vigilante repression isn’t new. Before Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi speaking out against war and Read more >
Header image via Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) This month, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is reissuing a spiky, forgotten jewel of a book. You may not know the author by name yet, but you’ll recognize her acquiring editor: Read more >
On April 23, Aspen Words announced the winner of the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and Read more >
Feliç Sant Jordi! The Catalan holiday, rooted in the story of the region’s patron saint, is celebrated every year around Catalonia, but is coming to NYC this week. The Sant Jordi NYC Festival of Books & Roses is a celebration Read more >
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2025 shortlist, which was winnowed down from a pool of 578 submissions, including 47 translations from 20 languages, representing 219 publishers Read more >
It’s your annoying cinephile friend’s favorite time of year. In a few short weeks, the Cannes Film Festival will run roughshod over the French riviera from May 13-May 24. Some exciting pictures will compete for the coveted Palme d’Or this Read more >
Pope Francis, who Nick Ripatrazone called our “most literary pope”, died this Sunday. Pope Francis, who despite the faults of his institution, was an admirable man who stood for the poor and the oppressed, most notably for the Palestinians, who Read more >
Each week, as the wheel of the year turns, it feels as though far more than a week has passed, what with the deluge of political chaos we face almost daily, and it’s easy to start to feel drained and Read more >
