A stepsister tells her side of the story. Two friends talk of nothing at all. And the Grim Reaper holds court at a legendary dive bar. These are just some of the literary calling cards from this year’s Sundance Film Read more >
This Thursday, Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation announced the shortlist for the 2025 Inside Literary Prize. The Inside Prize is the first-ever US-based literary award to be given by currently incarcerated people. Imani Read more >
Hooray, a spot of good news! The Gotham Book Prize, given annually to recognize a new book about New York City, has just released its list of finalists. Formed in 2020 by Howard Wolfson of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bradley Tusk, who Read more >
Publishers for Palestine, a coalition of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event, the Frankfurt Book Fair, over the Fair’s “failure to address its ties to German state and Read more >
One of the scariest threats that the Trump administration has made are against immigrants and other people they are eager to kick out. A lot of organizations have been preparing by sharing information about what rights we have if ICE Read more >
Today, Chicago-based arts organization United States Artists announced their 2025 USA Fellows, a group of 50 artists, including seven Writing Fellows, each of whom will receive a cash award of $50,000. Recipients are encouraged to use this unrestricted grant “for any Read more >
It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as though a whole year or more had already rushed by. Read more >
The late Jackie Collins left an eccentric legacy. In addition to the loving family, spicy reputation, and 32(!) bestselling bodice-rippers and crime dramas, there’s. This. House. Though perhaps “house” isn’t quite the right word for a bespoke multi-million-dollar mansion whose architect Read more >
On January 3rd, Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes left her post after charging her publisher with censorship. In a Substack letter, the artist explained her reason. Her editors unceremoniously dropped a piece poking fun at “the billionaire tech and media Read more >
Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects their lives, and Read more >
As of this morning, you can now easily buy ebooks from your local indie bookstore. Thanks to Bookshop.org, the reigning David to Am*zon’s Goliath. As Wired reports, a new platform on the site will now sell ebooks directly to customers. Read more >
January is nearing its end, and what a January it has been, marked by natural and political disaster alike, a month in which America, to any paying attention, takes its most overt steps into a pay-to-play system of corruption and Read more >
This Friday, the Trump administration moved to support the proliferation of book bans across the United States. Late last week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights not-so-quietly dropped 11 open complaints against school districts that have removed what Read more >
Mosab Abu Toha, the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian (who, in November 2023, was kidnapped by Israeli forces as he tried to get his young family out of Gaza) has released a statement confirming the destruction of the Edward Read more >
Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced their finalists for the best books published in 2024—30 books in six categories—as well as the finalists or winners of five special annual awards: two lifetime achievement awards, the NBCC Service Award, the Read more >
“Is it or is it not fascism” is a debate we’re going to be having a lot in the next few years, I’m afraid. And while there is perhaps an intellectual rigor to sussing out an answer, there are also Read more >
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