Disoriental, Négar Djavadi’s novel that explores the epic journey of a family over three generations between Teheran and Paris; was named winner of the Albertine Prize 2019, co-presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Van Cleef & Read more >
I’ll say this for Bill De Blasio mayor of New York City and the most confusing 2020 presidential candidate: his heart was in the right place when he tweeted that Joe Biden’s support of the Hyde Amendment, which would ban Read more >
At a ceremony in central London earlier today, Tayari Jones (who beat out Pat Barker, Madeline Miller, Diana Evans, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Anna Burns) was presented with the £30,000 award (and a limited edition bronze figure, the “Bessie”) for her novel, Read more >
My favorite feature at The Strategist is the one where they ask celebrities what things they can’t live without, mostly because a) I’m nosy, and b) I’m always ready to go down an online shopping rabbit hole. Today, the celebrity in Read more >
Rob Spillman can admit it: it was his crazy idea. Spillman, one of the founders of story exchange organization Narrative 4, wanted to launch a literary road trip to bring books to communities around the country. “I was going to Read more >
Last night, at NYU’s Skirball Center, the winners of the 31st Lambda Literary Awards—the Lammys—were announced. In addition to the 25 book award winners, three other individuals were acknowledged for their work in bringing visibility to LGBTQ voices. Alexander Chee Read more >
Today, The Cut published a profile of filmmaker Sandi Tan, whose first film, Shirkers (a “cinematic memoir” about the theft of her actual first film by “her director and mentor, a mysterious American man named George”) premiered to great acclaim 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 >
Happy 50th birthday to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the absurdly popular, 224-word tale of a caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly that has sold more than 50 million copies in the U.S. since its publication in 1969. Author Eric Carle envisioned an interactive book Read more >
Lana Del Rey is on the cover of this month’s Vogue Italia, which also features two of the poems from her forthcoming self-published collection, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. The first, “Bare feet on linoleum,” begins like this: Stay on your 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 >
Perhaps it will not shock you to learn this, but Tommy Orange has excellent taste in literature. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he sang the praises of Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star (“It’s short and powerful, and Read more >
Comics legend Seth talks Virginia Woolf, Charles Schulz, and his latest book: “The scene that really hits me in To the Lighthouse is when Mrs. Ramsay is watching the fruit in the bowl and thinking how beautiful the arrangement is Read more >
Remember last week, when Natalie Portman told the world that despite what he said in his memoir, Then It Fell Apart, she did not date Moby when he was 33 and she was 20 (also, that she was 18 at Read more >
Did you know there was a television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People in the works? I didn’t, until I saw this tweet from the first day of shooting (today!). According to Faber & Faber, Rooney’s UK publisher, the 12-episode, half-hour Read more >
Debut authors, take note: tomorrow Lit Hub has published some writing advice just for you, from Kelly Link’s speech at the 2019 One Story Literary Debutante Ball earlier this month. Here are a couple of our favorite lines: “When an Read more >
You’ve probably heard by now that Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel The Goldfinch, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, has been adapted to film by director John Crowley (Brooklyn), and Read more >
This morning on the 2 train, I witnessed something really rare and surprisingly lovely. Not screaming schoolchildren or obnoxious tourists or people proselytizing, but two total strangers genuinely connecting over a book! It started like this: the woman sitting next Read more >
On May 16, 2019, I emailed the biographer Edmund Morris after reading the first pages of his forthcoming book on Thomas Edison: “One of the best first sentences I’ve ever read. And the second one is even better.” He wrote Read more >
As I said aloud in the office just now, I never thought I would say it, but Ansel Elgort was the perfect choice for Theo Decker. Just look at these pictures! That’s a face that could convince you to (SPOILER Read more >
