October, astonishingly, is here already, bringing with it cooler weather, fiery and fading leaves, meditations on the passage of time and death as change, and, of course, spooky season. And, of course again, new books to read, including paperback editions Read more >
This weekend, a devastating hurricane knocked out a large swathe of the Southeast. A superstorm caused by climate change, Hurricane Helene is the largest natural disaster to hit the Carolina region in recorded time. Disaster relief is slow going, and Read more >
Lizzy Bennet, the hero of Pride and Prejudice, is that rare, perfectly-drawn character that one can imagine walking right off the page. But luckily, we no longer have to imagine. She’s real, folks. And she’s ready to talk. A UK-based Read more >
Ever since novelists started mixing with Hollywood, film and prose have been easy bedfellows. A lot of authors are proud cinephiles. Others go so far as to credit movies as major form or content influences. And thanks to the fleet Read more >
In a show of pro-Palestinian solidarity, the author and activist Jhumpa Lahiri refused to accept an honor from the Noguchi Museum yesterday. The Isamu Noguchi Award, named for the museum’s founder, has been conferred annually since 2014. It seeks to Read more >
Today, The New York Times’ real estate section published a story about Nicholas Sparks’ house, which looks very big, features lots of local art, and also boasts “the opening paragraph of The Notebook … inscribed on a wall behind a Read more >
Attention, bookworms and fellow travelers! Verso, the beloved left wing publishing house and hub for radical thought, is in big financial trouble. The company’s UK distributor, Marston Book Publishing, filed for bankruptcy this July—and left behind some unsettled debts. Verso Read more >
Publishers for Palestine, a global solidarity collective of more than 500 publishers in 50 countries, has issued an open letter to the Frankfurt Book Fair (the world’s largest trade fair for books, which this year takes place from October 16 Read more >
I think everyone is on the same page—which is to say, angry. The internet is angry, my friends are angry, and I am angry, and here’s why (though if you are reading this website, you probably already know this news): Read more >
September, incredibly, is nearing its end. But if the month feels like it’s rushing by, you can always slow down with a new bit of literary wonder to curl up with, and today is an especially bounteous day for book-lovers. Read more >
For a brief window between September 29th and November 25th, Earth’s gravity is going to pluck a passing, bus-sized asteroid out of space and pull it into our orbit. This second, mini moon will settle in alongside our first, relatively-mega Read more >
It’s delightful, on the one hand, to have a feverish Book Event. I’m as excited as anyone that we’re doing midnight release parties for literary fiction in the year of our lord 2024. That said, we need to talk about Read more >
In an act of Zoomer solidarity, I too am rewatching Sex and the City. And as enough ink has been spilled about how this infamous franchise hits in 2024, I’m paying special attention to the mise en scene. It’s especially Read more >
Out of an impressive group of finalists, the winners of 2024’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize were announced today. The prizes are given to “writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace, social justice, and global Read more >
The BBC published a story the other day on the push towards shorter and slimmer books, as a potential way for publishers to save money and reduce their climate impact. According to a 2021 study, a single paperback book accounts for Read more >
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Proust’s seven-volume classic In Search of Lost Time and your text messages stepped into the telepod from The Fly? You might get something like Andrew Weatherhead’s bizarre and compelling web literature project, Read more >
There’s a scene in Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel, Great Expectations, when a preternaturally jaded Obama campaign worker is mystified by something he sees on the wall at a donor’s house. Describing the piece as a hodgepodge of text and light, Read more >
It’s another Tuesday, just at that moment in September when its linger summeriness may begin to shift more decisively into the cooler fires of autumn, but there’s no shift in one thing: that September has a ton of new books Read more >
Today, the Booker Prizes announced their 2024 shortlist: six books narrowed down from the “Booker’s Dozen” (otherwise known as the longlist of 13), chosen from a starting pool of 156 books written in English and published between October 2023 and Read more >
The OUP USA Guild, part of the News Media Guild and representing around 150 workers, is demanding that Oxford University Press reverse the recent firing of US-based workers, claiming the layoffs are in violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that Read more >
