When Mary Shelley first unleashed Frankenstein on the world, just over 200 years ago, it was met with a few pretty mixed reviews. (With the exception of this glowing rave from her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, who had anticipated Read more >
Earlier this year, the BBC began filming a limited series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell. Now, Vanity Fair has graced us with the first few photographs from the show, which Read more >
Beloved Bennington poet Mary Ruefle (Madness, Rack, and Honey; My Private Property; Dunce) has been named Vermont’s poet laureate! She was selected by a panel of judges and will serve as the state’s ambassador for the arts. The honor is Read more >
As the wildfire situation in California worsens—with power outages, road closures, red flag warnings, and mandatory evacuations occurring throughout the state—several independent bookstores have been forced to reduce operating hours, cancel events, and in some cases even close their doors Read more >
Are you a very rich house-hunter who loves Tolkien? Well then, much like Bilbo Baggins when Gandalf saved him from those murderous trolls, you’re in luck! The Oxford home where Tolkien lived between 1930 and 1947, and where he wrote The Read more >
On this All Hallow’s Eve eve, let Benjamin Percy, who has the most notable voice in American letters (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, smash that play button), lull you to sleep with a reading of the surprisingly Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
According to the Bookseller, Elena Ferrante’s first novel in five years will be published in English in June 2020 by Europa Editions. The Lying Life of Adults (great title? or greatest title?) is out in Italian this coming November 7, Read more >
Stop whatever it is you’re doing and pay attention to me because I have, just this morning, stumbled upon some joyous, and potentially game-changing, literary news: Val Kilmer is releasing a memoir. Yes, friends, according to Publishers Weekly, Simon & Read more >
So you’d like to read a philosophical novel—but you don’t know where to start. That’s a very nice problem to have, and it has a very nice solution: this clever flowchart, created by Ben Roth, a philosopher who teaches in Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
At a ceremony tonight at the Austin Public Library, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of their sixth annual Kirkus Prize in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. Each winner was chosen from a shortlist announced last month; the Read more >
UNHhhh . . . Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood—for which Katya “literally wrote haikus about getting your period”—has a cover and a release date: May 5, 2020. EW revealed the cover today, along with an interview with the Read more >
For the first time in his six-decade, 38-book career of battling Romans and traipsing around ancient Europe, Asterix—the diminutive Gaul warrior whose antics have amused and enchanted generations of readers—will be stepping aside to let a female hero come to Read more >
In case you haven’t heard, Rihanna released a book, Rihanna: Fenty x Phaidon, filled with photographs documenting her life and career, from Barbados to worldwide tours, fashion shows, and book showcases. For those of you unable to wait until you Read more >
On Sunday night, Interabang Books, Dallas’ largest independent bookstore and only full-service indie bookshop, endured a direct hit from a tornado that barreled through Dallas’ commercial districts, tearing a wide swath through local shops and national chains alike. The bookstore, Read more >
The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction has been announced! The UK-based prize, which was first awarded in 1999, is open to books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
Today in “Stephen King is a good literary citizen” news: the writer’s home in Bangor, ME (the AKA the real-life Derry, where the sewers are perfectly normal thank you very much) will soon house an archive of his work and a writers’ Read more >
