By now, you’ve probably seen the barrage of ImageNet Roulette photos on your Twitter feed. They’re basically just photos of people’s faces surrounded by a green box and a label, based on the site’s guess of what social role you Read more >
It’s day three of the National Book Foundation’s longlist announcements; today they’ve announced the list for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. Publishers submitted a total of 245 books to be considered by judges Jos Charles, John Evans, Vievee Read more >
First, can we all agree that it should be “lit-fluencer”? Moving on: 1. “Gertrude Stein had time to read books. But do moms?” 2. “Owens’s dinner will be in a decidedly lower key: a gingham tablecloth, uniformed servers passing out Read more >
According to The Guardian, Margaret Atwood has not been chosen as the winner of this year’s Booker Prize—in fact, no one has. Yesterday, writer Matthew Sperling tweeted (then deleted) a photo from an unnamed bookstore, of two of the Booker Read more >
People like sex (I’ve been told) and people like (to read about) cults. Which is why two impending sex cult tell-alls could yield seven-figure publishing deals. The cult in question, Nxivm—which I refuse to even attempt to pronounce—came to national Read more >
Day two of the National Book Foundation’s longlist announcements; today, the Translated Literature Longlist, a category that was added just last year. Publishers submitted a total of 145 books. The judges (Keith Gessen, Elisabeth Jaquette, Katie Kitamura, Idra Novey, and Read more >
Today, Kirkus announced the eighteen finalists for its 2019 Kirkus Prize. One winner in each category (fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature) will be announced in a ceremony on Thursday, October 24 and awarded $50,000. “We have another stellar lineup 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 >
The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books longlisted for this year’s National Book Award in Young People’s Literature, chosen from a total of 325 books submitted to the foundation by publishers. The judges for YPL are An Na, Read more >
When Elizabeth Rush was preparing to join a research expedition bound for Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, she immersed herself in literature written about the southern-most continent and quickly found a canon dominated by tales of domination: the firsts, the singular Read more >
Back in March, Vogue informed me that models could read books. Naturally this infuriated me, because as a non-model, I considered books my thing. Stay in your lane, models! But now the (fashionable) shoe is on the other foot: writers—otherwise known as “purveyors of 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 >
The longlist for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, which carries a £50,000 purse, were announced today. The 12 nominated books cover a range of topics, from missing mothers to the dangers of the high seas to the true-crime Read more >
Dublin Murders, the hotly-anticipated Starz adaptation of two of Irish-American crime writer Tana French’s wildly popular Dublin Murder Squad novels (In the Woods and The Likeness), dropped its first trailer earlier this week and it is creepy AF. Set in the Read more >
The National Book Foundation announced today that it will award its 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Edmund White. “A master of narrative and craft across fiction, journalism, memoir, and more, White has built a career defined Read more >
If you pick up the newest edition of Oxford American, the quarterly general-interest literary magazine founded in 1992 and best known for its annual Southern music issues, you’ll notice a bold design aesthetic: the conspicuous dearth of cover lines, a prominent Read more >
This website’s position on books is that they’re best when you read them, but in the interest of journalistic(?) balance, here’s an app for people who love books, but don’t like reading. The 12min app, helpfully spotlighted by the New York Read more >
Buried deep within the alluvial silt of Twitter’s great and brackish tidal id one discovers, every now and then, a gem pure and bright. So it was I came across this thread from Bayfield, Wisconsin resident Julie Buckles, telling the Read more >
Today is a sad day. Concentric circles of mourning radiate, outward and infinite, from the morning of September 11, 2011: for the deepest of personal tragedies; for the dark swerve of history’s arc; for the millions of lives made ruin 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 >
