What a February it has been, a February that has felt more like a year (or three) than a month, a February in which it seems as though every day has yielded new political emergencies and embarrassments and head-spinning paradigm Read more >
In maybe the most high profile example of the “leopards ate my face” phenomenon, Vice-President-In-Name-Only J. David Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy is being pulled from the shelves at at least one Department of Defense school for being “potentially related to Read more >
Miranda July’s All Fours, one of the buzziest novels of 2024, is coming to a small screen near you. Starz has acquired the project and now a mysterious pre-production commences. Of course, we’re chiefly concerned with casting. Who should play Read more >
In August of 2022, Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at a Chautauqua, NY event where he was set to deliver a lecture about the United States as a safe haven for exiled writers; he was stabbed ten times in Read more >
Photo by Mindy Tucker Telling a good, smart joke about immigration is hard. Not only is it a fraught and complicated topic, but it’s a space that’s overstuffed with bad, right-wing attempts at comedy. Too often immigrants are the targets Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a woman aged 30 or younger,” who Read more >
As a New York City resident, I don’t really have any good governments at the moment. Federally I’m being governed by mendacious and grubbing hogmen, statewide I’m being represented by uninspired and fiddling centrists, and at the local city-level, I’m Read more >
Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem. As covered in The Verge, the mega-corporation is removing a feature that lets ebook Read more >
“Many of Edward Gorey’s most fervent devotees,” Stephen Schiff wrote in a profile of the artist in The New Yorker in 1992, “think he’s (a) English and (b) dead. Actually, he has never so much as visited either place.” Alas, he Read more >
This Black History Month is the fraughtest. Maybe even apex fraught. As many hard-won minority group commemorations are being actively scrubbed from government websites, we the recognized are asked to consider what those commemorations have come to mean under elite Read more >
As February unfurls, there is no shortage to the chaos and carnage that have come to define 2025 thus far, particularly in the United States, where it has become the norm to bemoan yet another constitutional crisis unfolding with little Read more >
The great F. Scott Fitzgerald has been stolen. Lifted. Carried away. I should clarify; not the man himself. For all we know, the novelist’s cremains are still safe and sound at his final resting place in a Rockville cemetery. It’s Read more >
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched a curated subscription service, the PalFest Bookshelf, which will deliver the best new books on Palestine, along with bespoke extras, straight to your door each month. Subscribers will receive six key books a Read more >
Out of 1,100 submissions, writer Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child has won the 2024 Novel Prize, and will be published early next year. The Novel Prize is awarded biennially to an unpublished work of literary fiction and “rewards novels that explore Read more >
If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book people who are working to fight censorship and protect access Read more >
You’ve tried chocolates, you’ve tried cards, you’ve even tried getting your valentine a copy of your favorite book, but they got stressed out because you were constantly watching them read like a hawk, to make sure they were reacting to Read more >
Attention fellow travelers, would-be radicals, curious culture vultures, and ABD English scholars! Our friends at Verso Books—the publishing imprint behind such titans of theory as Edward Said, Mike Davis, Judith Butler, Norman Finkelstein, and Tariq Ali—have launched a new virtual Read more >
It’s another week in a year that feels, already, like multiple years have passed, a year of head-scratching and head-spinning tumult. In times like this, it can be worthwhile—self-salvific, even—to take a break from all the news, to pause your Read more >
Though it’s by no means the worst of our worries at this moment, the evil empire has made its first moves on the culture. As Laura Grimes of Oregon ArtsWatch reported last Thursday, the Trump administration canceled a National Endowment Read more >
Photograph by Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian Israel’s genocidal aggression against Palestinians continues despite a ceasefire in Gaza, as police stormed two locations of the Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop locations in occupied Jerusalem last night, and arrested two of the owners, Mahmoud Muna and Read more >
