Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
Sometime after she wrote two of the best songs of all time in an alleged single sitting, Dolly Parton turned her talents to charming the world. She’s acted in perfect films (9 to 5), continued to make perfect country, pop, Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
Image by Amal Al-Nakhala and Journal of Architectural Education Earlier this week an influential academic publication on architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, or JAE, had its forthcoming fall issue on Palestine canceled by its publisher “without having read the content of Read more >
This week, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced the finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. A three judge panel—comprised of authors Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea—considered 414 novels and short story collections published in the US during Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
March is here, the third month of a year that continues to feel like many years compressed into a few months. Still, with March comes a new season, new chances for hope (one hopes), new horrors (one hopes less fervently Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
It’s that time of year again, when Hollywood’s eyes turn to That Golden Man, the big man-shaped award, that wonderful action figure we all want to hold but cannot play with: Mr. Oscar himself. This year a lot of the Read more >
March, miraculously, is here, the third month in a new year that has already felt like a year or two compressed into these first few months. But, even as 2025 seems defined by chaos so far, there are certainties to Read more >
There’s a new Bridget Jones movie, and tis a truth universally acknowledged that some of us are obliged to comment. The four film franchise launched off Helen Fielding’s bestselling Bridget Jones’s Diary is wildly hit and miss. But there’s something Read more >
The longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize 2025 has been announced. The annually given prize recognizes international literature in translation. The winning book will receive a £50,000 purse, divided equally between author and translator(s). Shortlisted titles receive £5,000. This Read more >
What a February it has been, a February that has felt more like a year (or three) than a month, a February in which it seems as though every day has yielded new political emergencies and embarrassments and head-spinning paradigm Read more >
In maybe the most high profile example of the “leopards ate my face” phenomenon, Vice-President-In-Name-Only J. David Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy is being pulled from the shelves at at least one Department of Defense school for being “potentially related to Read more >
Miranda July’s All Fours, one of the buzziest novels of 2024, is coming to a small screen near you. Starz has acquired the project and now a mysterious pre-production commences. Of course, we’re chiefly concerned with casting. Who should play Read more >
In August of 2022, Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at a Chautauqua, NY event where he was set to deliver a lecture about the United States as a safe haven for exiled writers; he was stabbed ten times in Read more >
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