Ismail Kadare is the 26th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which recognizes outstanding literary merit in literature worldwide. Kadare is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist and playwright who rose to fame in Albania on the strength Read more >
Harold Bloom, a controversial and best-selling critic whose career in literary criticism spanned more than half a century, died Monday at the age of 89. Born in the East Bronx in 1930, Bloom graduated from the Bronx High School of Read more >
The 2019 Booker Prize has been awarded to Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other and Margaret Atwood for The Testaments. The two will share the £50,000 prize. This is the third time the Booker has been split—in 1974 between Nadine Gordimer and 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 >
Riverhead has released a newly translated statement from Olga Tokarczuk, who won a Nobel Prize in Literature this week. “Olga had been unreachable for most of the day yesterday,” wrote Claire McGinnis, Riverhead’s Associate Director of Publicity, in an email, Read more >
Sam Lansky, author of the memoir The Gilded Razor and the West Coast Editor at TIME magazine, will publish a novel in June 2020. Here’s the cover! Lansky’s narrator, Sam, is a writer and recovering addict based in LA in his Read more >
An auction of various things from the estate of Anthony Bourdain, the late writer, chef, and TV host, is happening now through October 30, and it includes a number of Bourdain’s early writings. The current bid for the original manuscript Read more >
PEN America issued the following statement today, from author and PEN America President Jennifer Egan, in response to the Swedish Academy’s choice of Peter Handke for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature (along with Olga Tokarczuk): PEN America does not Read more >
Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke have been awarded the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes in Literature, respectively (the prize was not awarded in 2018 after scandal and impropriety rocked the Swedish Academy). Tokarczuk was one of this year’s favorites to Read more >
First came Baby Cobra, Ali Wong’s brilliantly brazen Netflix comedy special. She shares with us her sexual escapades with homeless men, pokes fun at feminism (“Lean in? I don’t wanna lean in. I wanna lay down!”), and she does it all while Read more >
Here are the 25 finalists up for the National Book Awards in of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature: Finalists for Fiction: Susan Choi, Trust Exercise Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & 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 >
If you wanted to see a lot of photos of Rihanna, you could follow @badgalriri on Instagram OR you could buy this 504-page “visual autobiography.” (Think Kim Kardashian’s Selfish but probably way better.) Rihanna is a 15-pound doorstopper that features Read more >
Another week, another prestigious literary prize announcement. This time, it’s the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which “celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, social justice, and global understanding.” The nonfiction winner was Rising Out of Hatred, by Eli Saslow, a Read more >
First editions, signed or inscribed copies, incunabula, manuscripts, and artists’ books . . . the list goes on. Bibliophiles of all stripes are aware of these terms and their monetary value although they may not have a clue who has 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 >
Jason Villemez at the Bay Area Reporter reports today on the expansive history of LGBTQ bookstores, tracking their humble beginnings at the cultural outskirts of bookselling, their rise as community hubs during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the new roadblocks they’re Read more >
Parodically villainous Dylan Howard, the former editor-in-chief of The National Enquirer and alleged sexual harasser, really, really doesn’t want you to read Ronan Farrow’s upcoming book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators. Catch and Kill is Read more >
Fellow procrastinators rejoice: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced earlier this week that the city’s library system would stop charging late fees, making it the largest city in the country to do so. Now, books that have been checked out will Read more >
