Today, at a ceremony in Toronto, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which awards $150,000 annually to women and non-binary writers with books published in Canada and the US, announced its 2026 winner: Julia Elliott’s short story collection Hellions (Tin Read more >
Last weekend, Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters hit theaters, blowing a breath of fresh air into the American cinema. Riley, the funkmaster filmmaker behind 2018’s Sorry to Bother You, is best known for a highly gonzo, “socialist surrealist” aesthetic. And just like his Read more >
June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozeki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive today. An endless bounty of great fiction and nonfiction Read more >
Today, the Biographers International Organization announced the winner of the 2026 Plutarch Award for Best Biography of 2025: Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife represents a compelling original approach to Stein’s life and work and, ultimately, Read more >
Hudson Williams, the Canadian sweetheart behind the smash hit Heated Rivalry, has pledged his allegiance to the English department. Your favorite hockey hunk is a reader, people. And we must say, the ice king’s got pretty good taste. According to Read more >
Summer is officially here, and as the weather warms and our dreams of escapes to elsewhere begin seeming a bit more possible, I’m here to suggest new books to accompany you into June, whatever your plans may be. (And how Read more >
Belle Burden’s memoir Strangers might be the most talked about book of the year. Since its January publication, book clubs have been buzzing with takes on this tell-all memoir, which follows the author’s very public, very gutting divorce from the Read more >
For decades, Mariner Books has stewarded The The Best American Series®, a literary institution that began in 1915 with Best American Short Stories, to your bookshelves. But just in case you’re stumbling upon it for the first time: Each book Read more >
In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical humanism. The message—delivered in the form of an encyclical letter, periodic for popes—calls for Read more >
The tail end of a long weekend brings us a new slew of reads: a collection of David Sedaris essays, Jorie Graham poems, as well as a fresh novel from bestseller Matt Haig all promise to deliver. That’s not all Read more >
The joke around the proverbial water cooler goes that this is apparently the week all the bigwigs in lit world got together and decided to embrace their own destruction. [Insert sad trombone sound.] James Daunt, the CEO of Barnes & Read more >
Today, at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern, Natasha Brown, Chair of the 2026 International Booker Prize judging panel, announced this year’s winner: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King. The International Booker Prize celebrates “the Read more >
After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her recent novel made the rounds on social media, the novelist shared a statement with Lit Hub via her publisher, addressing the controversy: Like any other Read more >
At long last, the beloved Irish writer Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of her latest novel, Intermezzo. Rooney, a vocal supporter of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, hasn’t published a book in Israel since 2021. But thanks Read more >
Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here. We also updated the text below to more accurately reflect Read more >
It’s another grim day at the human factory. There is strong evidence to suggest that a prize-winning short story published this week in celebrated literary magazine Granta was entirely generated by AI. Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove,” was Read more >
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