On Sunday night, Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a children’s musical show titled “Dreams Under the Olive Trees.” Following direct instructions from far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the theater Read more >
The AFM Issue 2 launch was one of those mythical parties that you hear about sometimes: No line, for starters. Free magazines and merch, free drinks, readings by talented authors. Knocking elbows with gorgeous and edgy young people from the Read more >
With our “What was Literary Twitter?” bracket (don’t forget to vote!) and the National Book Awards happening all in the same week, I’ve been very sleepy lately. Please send any tips on waking up that aren’t “coffee” or “saying ‘come Read more >
Such a lot, readers! Forget your troubles, and come on over to Lit Hub! A lot of the gang got together IRL this week, thanks to the National Book Awards. Emily Temple is thrilled to confirm that several colleagues previously Read more >
Turns out, the Terminator movies would have been more realistic if Sarah Conner had a poetry MFA. In a new paper titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”, a team of researchers have found Read more >
Pulling together the 64 original Literary Twitter moments and incidents to create our winter game, What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket, required the vast institutional memory of the entire Lit Hub team, who each had their personal favorite e-dramas to Read more >
Pulling together the 64 original Literary Twitter moments and incidents to create our winter game, What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket, required the vast institutional memory of the entire Lit Hub team, who each had their personal favorite e-dramas to Read more >
The winners of this year’s National Book Awards have just been announced at a ritzy gala in downtown Manhattan. Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) won the fiction award, Omar El Akkad’s One Read more >
If you’ve been watching the trials of the Wicked press tour with bated breath—or if you’ve been clenching your wand for nine straight months, just waiting for the release of a certain cash-grabby sequel—boy, have I got a hump day Read more >
Somewhere on the goofy/sad spectrum in AI slop news, today two novels up for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Award were disqualified on the basis of their AI cover art. Obligate Carnivore, a story collection by Stephanie Johnson, and Read more >
Eloise, the OG enfant terrible best known for causing mayhem at the Plaza Hotel, is getting a live adaptation. And an unlikely duo is behind it: Ryan Reynolds and Amy Sherman-Palladino, of Deadpool and Gilmore Girls, respectively. The beloved 50s Read more >
Pulling together the 64 original Literary Twitter moments and incidents to create our winter game, What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket, required the vast institutional memory of the entire Lit Hub team, who each had their personal favorite e-dramas to Read more >
This week, the Cercador Prize announced Christina MacSweeney as the winner of the 2025 prize for her translation of Jazmina Barrera’s The Queen of Swords, out from Two Lines Press. This is the third year of the Cercador Prize, which Read more >
On February 3, 2026, Back Bay Books will publish a special edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, complete with a new cover and a new foreword by Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, to celebrate the cult American novel’s 30th anniversary. Read more >
The apex of book releases winds down somewhat at this time of the year, as we make our way slowly, steadily, and then all at once, into holiday season. At this point, many publishers have already launched their Big Books, Read more >
Good Friday, readers! Over here, we have happy feet. Music’s been getting us through these freaky days. So today, up is down and Lit Hub is…Pitchfork. McKayla Coyle and Oliver Scialdone are all about the new Rosalía. This fourth album Read more >
Last week, several prominent staffers at Teen Vogue—including culture editor Kaitlyn NcNab and politics editor Lex McMenamin—took to socials to share bummer news. A round of layoffs had hit half the masthead. Six writers who’d made their names covering climate change, Read more >
In a recent piece for Cultured, novelist Rob Franklin observed “a surge” in recent depictions of the Black bourgeoisie. This milieu, defined by a lifting as we climb ethos and certain cultural signifiers (Jack and Jill, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Oak Read more >
Finally, a sense of hope in the air. A tide change, or a wind shifting: New Yorkers can, and do, expect better for themselves. There’s a beauty to that realization, that no matter the hardships and beat-downs our country has Read more >
Today, at a ceremony in London, David Szalay was awarded the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel, Flesh. The judges called it “a disquisition on the art of being alive, and all the affliction that comes along with it, but it Read more >
