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Here's the winner of the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award.

Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2024 Book Award, which recognizes titles originally published in English “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with French culture.” This Read more >

By Literary Hub

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2024 Booker Prize.

Next week, the UK’s most prestigious book prize, the Booker, will announce its 2024 winner. Have you placed your bets yet? An important reminder for those keeping track: do not bet on “Paul” to win the Booker Prize this year. Read more >

By Emily Temple

It’s time to radicalize your book club.

It’s an ugly day, and I’m finding it hard to face what’s next. The clarity is jarring and immense, and the fear, grief, and rage are feeling larger than I can hold. I’m reminding myself continually that I cannot and Read more >

By James Folta

Oliver Sacks! Dante! Queer folktales! 20 new books out today.

November is here! And, of course, for American readers today is also Election Day. For many of us, this is a day of nervous anticipation at best and heart-thumping anxiety at the fear of civil war at worst, and it Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

5,000 more writers have joined the boycott of complicit Israeli cultural institutions.

Last Monday, we published an open letter signed by over a 1000 prominent authors—including Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Annie Ernaux, Arundhati Roy, Peter Carey, Kamila Shamsie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Téa Obreht, Jia Tolentino, Rachel Kushner, Jericho Brown, China Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Suzanne Nossel is stepping down as PEN America CEO.

Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, has announced plans to leave her position. This follows a year of intense criticism over her leadership of the “free speech organization,” which has refused to take a stand in the face of Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Hundreds of writers and entertainment figures sign letter rejecting Israel boycott.

Lionel Shriver, Lee Child, Bernard Henri-Lévy, Herta Müller, Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Bret Stephens, Yossi Klein Halevi, and David Mamet are among the writers who have joined entertainment industry figures Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Scooter Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Meet the real literary witches of the 20th century.

What is a witch? Unruly, ungovernable. A woman, too sexual or strong-willed for the times. Witch was historically an epithet, given to one who knows the body, the earth, the stars, or even her own mind better than polite society Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Roxane Gay! Tom Wolfe! Love in the time of apocalypse! 24 books out in paperback this November!

November is here, and what a wild November it already seems it will be, particularly for those of us in the United States bracing for the aftermath of our presidential election, for there will almost certainly be chaos regardless of Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Kathleen DuVal has won the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

In a ceremony today in Montreal, Jury Chair Rana Mitter announced the winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which honors books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” This year’s winner, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary Read more >

By Literary Hub

A brief literary history of the newspaper endorsement.

This week, many readers were shocked to learn that two major papers will not be endorsing a presidential candidate this election cycle—a decision made at the bequest of two billionaires with estate tax in the game. Jeff Bezos, owner of Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Brothers Grimm! Gilmore Girls! Glory Edim! 18 new books out today.

October, incredibly, is nearly over, though the end of the month is often just what we look forward to most: Halloween, Samhain, reflections on the passage of time and life alike. (And, because it’s inescapable this year, the election, though Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Here are the winners of the 2024 National Translation Awards.

On October 26th, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the winners of the 25th National Translation Awards. The NTAs are awarded, in both poetry and prose, to “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English Read more >

By Literary Hub

Bernardine Evaristo is letting writers crash at her house for free.

Bernardine Evaristo, president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) and author of the polyphonic, Booker-Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other, is paying it forward. And the “it” in question is some primo Kentish real estate. As part and parcel of the RSL’s Read more >

By Brittany Allen

A sex-work-positive reading list, inspired by Anora .

Something’s happening with sex and work this season, culturally-speaking. On screen, Sean Baker’s Anora, a loving profile of an escort on the come-up, is gathering Oscar buzz. On the page, Sally Rooney’s latest, Intermezzo, features a character balancing an IRL Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan accidentally visited the world's largest publishing trade fair.

Have you heard the one about a stone rolling into a book fair, and leaving a complete unknown? Bob Dylan, music icon and Chalamet look-alike, is currently on a European tour and happened to find himself at publishing’s biggest book Read more >

By James Folta