Oh, Oscars. You’re either a trivial night celebrating our country’s worst ideals, or a magical ceremony in thrall to our angels. We hate you, we love you. We love to hate you. We love, especially, to have hot takes on Read more >
Today, in a ceremony at the University Aula in the Norwegian city of Bergen, the Holberg Prize announced Lyndal Roper, a scholar of early European history and the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford emeritus, as its Read more >
It’s the last week of a relentless winter, God willing. One more 30-degree day on the horizon, but who’s counting? Let’s count the books instead: there’s a great new cascade of literature today, a healthy selection of both nonfiction and Read more >
Earlier this month, The Cut launched a new vertical, “Oh Baby,” with an eye toward aggravating one demographic: the ambivalent prospective parent. Over a week, readers were treated to a raft of anxious baby content. There was this piece about Read more >
It’s been a week of welcome change, in terms of temps and altitudes. We at Lit Hub are seeing familiar climes from fresh angles. Jonny Diamond is grateful for last week’s voyage to AWP, that apex stateside literary conference. In Baltimore, Read more >
Grammarly has quickly rolled back a controversial software feature after intense backlash. The short-lived feature was called “Expert Review,” and offered AI-generated writing advice delivered via sock puppet versions of living and dead writers, all created without their permission. The Read more >
In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new adaptation of Plath’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Bell Jar. Read more >
The Key launched with an essay by the new magazine’s editor in chief Sara Yasin called “It’s Not Complicated.” The essay is part reflection, part media criticism, part thesis statement for the publication, and Yasin’s opening line rolls all of Read more >
Today, Aspen Words announced the shortlist for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.” Read more >
The Oscars are this Sunday. And if you’ve already filled out the party poll with Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value down the line, this recommender 1) applauds you, and 2) has got you covered. For my money, that beautifully acted chamber Read more >
In A+ prank news, roughly 10,000 authors signed their names to a new anthology to protest AI theft of human creativity. The twist? The book, called Don’t Steal This Book, is…empty. But for a list of its contributing “authors.” As Read more >
Nonprofit libraries—or to be precise, any library that receives some of its money from 501 (c) (3) nonprofit contributions—are sundowning their passport services. The federal government announced this new dictum in late 2025, breaking with a long-standing tradition. And as Read more >
An astounding week of literary fiction awaits: Andrew Martin’s much anticipated second novel, Down Time is out this week, along with T Kira Madden’s debut novel, and Karan Mahajan’s long-in-the-works The Complex. Ani Katz’s chilling Haven will also hit the Read more >
Amazon has pulled out of sponsoring the Paris Book Fair, thanks to pressure from a booksellers’ association: Syndicat de la Librairie Française (SLF). The SLF, which represents independent bookstores all over France, announced plans to boycott the fest based on Read more >
It’s the AWP Conference and Bookfair this week, and most of the Lit Hub staff has been in Baltimore. With the editors out of town, those of us not at AWP have been taking good care of the place, and Read more >
Today marks the seventh day of the unlawful U.S-Israel war against Iran. Like many a citizen, I’ve been struggling to understand what’s animating this latest burst of imperial violence. It’s hard to argue with un-reason. And with legal, moral, and Read more >
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