Heists are in the air. Paris is in a tizzy over recent smash and grabs at the Louvre and elsewhere. Stateside, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, featuring the people’s boyfriend Josh O’Connor as a bumbling local art thief, is hitting theaters. Read more >
The annual John Dos Passos Prize for Literature honors the country’s most talented fiction writers for career-long contributions to the genre. First launched in 1980, the prize is the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university. And Read more >
Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation announced Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall as the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which seeks to reward books that represent the legendary writer’s literary, moral, and aesthetic ideals: “realists Read more >
In (more) bad civil rights news, an Ohio third grade teacher lost a battle with the state last week when a district court dismissed her book ban lawsuit. Karen Cahall, who’s taught in the New Richmond Exempted Village School District Read more >
Another Tuesday, another great haul. Today we have a ton of hotly anticipated titles, such as Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett, as well as The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers (check out the epic back cover of that Read more >
This weekend, the British Library issued a century-late apology to Oscar Wilde in the form of a brand new library card. The Irish poet-novelist-playwright was the toast of 19th-century Anglo letters. But in 1895, a ruthless public smear campaign hinging Read more >
Spooky season is upon us again. (At least if you’re in the Northeast corridor.) So this week, Lit Hubbers enjoyed autumnal fare. I’m talking leaf-peeping, and freaky Fridays. We’ve got reflection and hibernation on the brain. Whether that means hunkering Read more >
What a time to be alive, for starters! Axl Rose, the notorious Guns N’ Roses frontman, is turning his talents to the graphic novel. In a new collaboration with Sumerian Comics, a Tennessee publisher with Simon & Schuster distribution, Mr. Read more >
I’ll save you the counting on your fingers: that’s a minimum of $10 million. It’s a boggling amount of money, enough to make you crack a filling. This mondo deal was announced yesterday, and includes a new book by Bessel Read more >
It’s become the default to have a screen on in every room of a dentist’s office. When I was a kid, the TV was perched in a ceiling corner, like a stuffed owl in a Hitchcock movie, but over the Read more >
This summer, the novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid released a career-spanning collection. Covering forty years—from her early days as a precocious New Yorker staff writer to her present perch as a “fiery postcolonial critic”—the work in Putting Myself Together describes Read more >
Literary fiction-heads (as LH devotees usually are) must celebrate: new Brandon Taylor AND Megha Majumdar in one week?! Not to mention exciting, unputdownable novels by Quan Barry, Anna North, Adam Johnson, and a selection of compelling and masterful stories by Read more >
Fittingly for the news of a new Moomin movie this week, today is Finnish Literature Day. Maybe break out some Tove Jansson, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, or Väinö Linna this weekend to celebrate? Or go all the way back and read Read more >
Get in, Lit Hubbers. We’re going…everywhere. The whole staff is skipping into fall with an eye to adventure. We’re picking apples and pumpkins. We’re bringing abroad stateside, and the Deep Sea to the surface. I, Brittany Allen, have been really Read more >
ICE is depraved, and every day they seem to find new ways to lash out. Their incompetence—from out-of-shape squadristi getting embarrassed in Chicago to the poorly written snivelings of racist pencil eraser Stephen Miller—hasn’t hampered their ability to hurt our Read more >
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Krasznahorkai is one of international Read more >
Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize, in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. These winners were selected from a list of finalists, announced in August, Read more >
Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercepted by the IDF. In a video posted to her Read more >
HarperCollins UK is pulping copies of a recently published book about Prince Andrew over unsubstantiated rumors that have maddened the Trumps, according to The Hill, Axios, and others. Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Read more >
Those loveable Finnish trolls are coming to the American movies! Writer and artist Tove Jansson created the Moomins in the 1940s and the characters have since become a global phenomenon, appearing in books, comics, TV series, movies, and theme parks Read more >
