Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters, a coming-of-age novel about best friends who spend the summers together on Martha’s Vineyard, will be a limited series on Hulu, with Liz Tigelaar, the writer and showrunner of the upcoming Little Fires Everywhere adaptation, as its Read more >
For years, Jon Krakauer has been trying to find out exactly how a Montana education official was involved in the case of a college student who avoided expulsion after being accused of rape. On Monday, the Supreme Court said it Read more >
Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more. It’s getting precarious. It’s taking up your whole nightstand. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. What are you reading this Read more >
This past Saturday, the 51st NAACP Image Award winners were announced at a ceremony in California. The annual event celebrates the achievements of people of color in the arts (hello, Lizzo, Entertainer of the Year, I love you), and highlights Read more >
With any kind of environment-related hope in increasingly short supply, the title and press language for Jane Goodall’s new book seem both refreshing and a little bit like literary time travel. The Book of Hope, which will be published in Read more >
Elon Musk made a tweet about a book. Specifically, a lukewarm recommendation of Isaac Asimov’s seminal sci-fi trilogy Foundation, which, according to a 2017 Rolling Stone interview, taught Musk that “you should try to take the set of actions that Read more >
Today in literary real estate: would you like to buy Bleak House, the Broadstairs, Kent summer home where Charles Dickens wrote “the greater part” of David Copperfield? (Despite its name, Bleak House had nothing to do with the writing of Bleak Read more >
Since 1988, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism has been shining a light on journalists who call attention to vital current events or societal issues. The titles up for consideration this year tackle Read more >
Is your temperature starting to rise? Been feeling achy lately? Could be a return of Ferrante Fever. The second season of HBO’s gorgeous, luxuriously slow adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet will be premiering on March 16th—and in the meantime, Read more >
Never meet your heroes, kids. I’ve got sad news for you. Turns out, Ben Jonson, the renowned Elizabethan playwright and the first poet laureate of England, was a murderer. On September 22nd, 1598, when he was an (angry) young man Read more >
Are you the parent of a child with an unfortunate predilection for picking their nose or robbing other people’s orchards? If so, help has arrived in the form of some centuries-old, recently digitized books, now available on the British Library’s Read more >
The door of Los Angeles’ newest bookstore is propped open on a quiet section of Hollywood Boulevard, the front window displaying books on a handmade wooden bookshelf. Inside the front room, you’ll find more books and merchandise below a neon Read more >
Finally, the one true pivot we’ve all been waiting for… to books! Flatiron announced yesterday that they’ll be launching an imprint called Stuff You Should Read: An iHeart Book, which will turn popular iHeart Radio podcasts into books (which will Read more >
Congratulations to the finalists for the annual Nebula Awards! Presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, these awards have been celebrating writers working in the genres for the past fifty-five years. (Past recipients include N. K. Jemisin Read more >
Books are very, very useful, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise I’ve heard of people using them as purses and safes, doorstoppers and vases, wallpaper and even, uh, a bit of kindling. In addition to interior edification, books have Read more >
Have you ever listened to one of your favorite albums on repeat, gotten lost in the sweeping, cinematic feel of it, knew it so well that you began picturing it as a narrative, filled in the details missing from the Read more >
There’s a new trailer for Little Fires Everywhere, the upcoming Hulu miniseries based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel, to get us through the next three weeks until its premiere on March 18. The story of interconnected family dramas in a Cleveland Read more >
Last night, I was in my third hour of binge-watching The Bold Type when I stumbled upon an ad that made me do a double-take. The ad was for Amazon Storefronts, a section launched in 2018 as a way for Read more >
This month, science fiction fans and Solaris lovers everywhere have cause to celebrate: six newly-illustrated editions of work by the late Polish author Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) are being published by The MIT Press. Lem’s influence on science fiction has been compared to Read more >
This morning, I received a marketing email from cool athleisure brand Outdoor Voices, advertising a nice looking set of Cotton Terry Sweats and telling me I should buy them because they are simple, and Henry David Thoreau advocated simplicity. Sure, Read more >
