In the weeks since the election, I’ve felt increasingly frustrated by calls for politeness and decorum. There seems to be no end to the “why can’t we all just get along”s, the calls to be more tolerant and understanding, and Read more >
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, that curious American tradition defined as much by turkeys and stuffing as that dread certain family members feel about seeing each other–all the more so in such an election year, and a strikingly polarizing one Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author that includes a $10,000 advance, a writing residency from Millay Arts, and Read more >
Two technology behemoths recently announced that they’re moving into print, and while headlines about a company pivoting to print is a refreshing change of pace, forgive me if I don’t hold my breath. More books are always good in theory, Read more >
In 2016, the writer Andrew Lipstein and I gathered a bunch of funny and talented friends to make a magazine called Paul Ryan. It was a follow-up to a previous satire project, The Neu Jorker, and for this second outing, Read more >
After a long ceremony and lots of wonderful speeches about books, presenting the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards: YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House * TRANSLATED Read more >
Yesterday in Toronto, the Writers’ Trust of Canada recognized the country’s best books and authors with the distribution of seven annually-given prizes. For his second novel, Batshit Seven, the novelist Sheung-King received the highly coveted Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Read more >
In bummer news for all fans of the separation of church and state, this Tuesday Texas lawmakers “signaled their support” for a new public school curriculum that will include lessons from—wait for it—the actual bible. The state-commissioned syllabi, dubbed “Bluebonnet Read more >
Out of an impressive shortlist, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has won 2024’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Flanagan’s wide-ranging memoir and history weaves together H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, pre-war nuclear physics, his father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the Read more >
The gala for the Giller Prize—formally Canada’s most prestigious literary award, now synonymous with artwashing genocide and apartheid—took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel last night. Anne Michaels received the 2024 prize for her novel Held. Michaels is a poet Read more >
Karina Longworth, the host and historian behind the in-depth Hollywood history podcast, You Must Remember This, recently teased the long-awaited return of her show. Last week via Insta, Longworth posted a shelf of research books that she consulted while sculpting Read more >
November has been quite a month, and one of the few constants it has had is its lack of constancy, its surprises. Still, one thing does remain consistent: that there will be new books to consider each Tuesday. Below, you’ll Read more >
As a lapsed poet with a pessimistic view of humanity, I was disheartened but not remotely surprised to read The Guardian’s report on a study finding that “non-expert poetry readers” preferred poetry written by AI to poetry written by humans. Read more >
The Bookseller has selected six books for their 46th annual Diagram Prize shortlist for The Oddest Book Title of the Year, a prize they’ve been awarding since 1978. (According to Sarah Lyall, the prize began “as a way for Bruce Read more >
The Cercador Prize announced this morning that Thomas Bunstead has won the 2024 prize for his translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s The Book of All Loves. Established last year, the Cercador Prize is an exciting entrant into the literary-prize sphere: Read more >
The term “government-issued graphic novel” shouldn’t fill anyone with excitement. I honestly hadn’t even considered the possibility of their existence until last week when the Twitter account from Elon Musk’s AmericaPAC (which somehow has the account @America on Twitter… oh Read more >
On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book Santa’s Husband: the book’s publisher, HarperCollins, was offering $2,500 Read more >
I don’t know how I still manage to be surprised by the odd, odd choices of Hollywood auteurs. I’m a woman of the world. I should know better. Yet the latest literary IP to hit the development pipeline strikes this Read more >
Laughter and terror: these will most certainly be the primary contributions of a second Donald Trump administration to the national mood. To wit: a new report from Columbia Journalism Review details a letter from Trump’s lawyer sent to the New Read more >
If, at the moment, you find yourself looking around for guidance about, I don’t know, the nature of reality and how easy it is to manufacture it, you could do a lot worse than turning to Philip K. Dick. And Read more >
