I’ve always wanted—perhaps because I grew up in poverty and the absence of what might be considered as beauty, or because I internalized from a young age as a rape survivor my own ugliness and distance from beauty, or because Read more >
Dumani Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela and a writer himself, is auctioning two of his own books as NFTs to raise money for My Minimalist, his mental heath care web app. I Dream of Kemet and Young and On The Read more >
Shine the chainmail and sharpen the broadswords because the trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel—a broody historical epic of betrayal and vengeance based on Eric Jager’s 2004 nonfiction book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat Read more >
The headlines about the benefits of reading just keep coming. If you spend enough time online, you know reading purportedly makes you a better entrepreneur, happier, less stressed, and “more human.” It also apparently makes you more socially adept: the Read more >
There’s a line in 500 Days of Summer that every book lover has undoubtedly clocked. It’s towards the end. Way after they discover they both love The Smiths in the elevator, after the copy room kiss, after karaoke, after running through Read more >
Fresh off Shuggie Bain’s Booker win, Douglas Stuart has announced his new novel, Young Mungo, is forthcoming from Grove (US), Knopf Canada, and Picador (UK), in April 2022. Aside from having an incredibly sticky title, Young Mungo is promised to Read more >
In the Time Before Zola, Twitter users couldn’t link continuous threads. This feature wasn’t introduced until late 2017, which somehow seems like a lifetime ago. So, when 19-year-old Aziah “Zola” Wells took to the platform in October 2015, she couldn’t Read more >
Another Tuesday, another pile of books we can’t wait to get our hands on. What’re you waiting for?! Drop everything, and head on over to your local indie. On your (book)mark, get set, read! * Katie Kitamura, Intimacies (Riverhead) “…cooly Read more >
Some book news for the royal watchers out there: Prince Harry is publishing a memoir with Penguin Random House in late 2022. According to the press release, the book will be “the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and Read more >
A writer is running for office—and happily, in this case it’s not J.D. Vance. The Willamette Week reported yesterday that Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-winning columnist for The New York Times, known for his reporting on the Tiananmen Square protests, his reporting Read more >
Since January 20th of this year, there’s been no shortage of artists and critics voicing their (mostly glowing) opinions about inaugural poet and rising star Amanda Gorman. Finally joining the conversation is enduring satirist Ishmael Reed, best known for his Read more >
Exciting book news for your Monday! Emily St. John Mandel—of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which could be said to be one of the great pre-COVID pandemic novels—has written a new novel, to be published by Knopf on April Read more >
You may know Amber Tamblyn as Joan of Arcadia or Tibby Rollins of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but throughout her career, the actor has also cemented her place as an established author. Thus far, she’s published six books, Read more >
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by Read more >
The American Booksellers Association has made their Twitter account private after promoting a scientifically inaccurate anti-trans book, apologizing, and then deleting the apology. The controversy started when the ABA, as part of their July “white box” promotional mailing, sent 750 Read more >
“I was surrounded by phonies…They were coming in the goddam window.” 70 years ago today, The Catcher in the Rye first hit bookshelves across the US, and people still have some pretty strong opinions about J. D. Salinger’s groundbreaking debut. Read more >
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