Sally Rooney continues to be one of the literary world’s most vocal and eloquent advocates for Palestinian rights, as well as a trenchant critic of Israeli brutality and US complicity in the war on Gaza. In a controlled-but-blistering op-ed published Read more >
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards, recognizing some of the best SFF writing from 2023. SFWA is also honoring Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising) with the 40th Damon Read more >
Dave Eggers has a new novel coming out—sort of. McSweeney’s just announced The Forgetters, which is described as something which “will someday be a probably-overlong novel by Dave Eggers; when the whole thing will be finished is anyone’s guess. But Read more >
Today, Aspen Words announced the five finalists for the 2024 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 Read more >
Earlier this afternoon, hundreds of book workers from around the UK gathered in the rain outside the London Book Fair (one of the largest book publishing trade fairs in the world) to mourn and remember the 187 Palestinian writers, poets, Read more >
It’s another Tuesday in March, the Year-of-Our-Ultimately-Arbitrary-Calendars 2024, but it also isn’t just any other Tuesday, for this is the day that we finally get new work, Until August, from Gabo, as the esteemed Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was Read more >
Today, the International Booker Prize—which seeks to honor the best novels and short story collections in translation published in the UK and/or Ireland every year—announced its 2024 longlist. The 13 books on this year’s longlist were selected from 149 books Read more >
The Oscars are Sunday! For those of you haven’t managed to watch all of this year’s nominees (or even if you have and would like a refresher), we’ve put together a handy cheat sheet to help you stay super informed Read more >
Who among us hasn’t wished that they could get paid to just sit and read for a little while? No strings, no work-related tasks involved—just good old fashioned American currency in exchange for reading a book of your choosing, for Read more >
“The reality on the ground is infinitely worse than the worst videos and photos that we’re seeing in the west.” Susan Abulhawa—the Palestinian-American writer and human rights activist whose debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, became an international bestseller in 2010—has Read more >
Spring is here! That can mean many things to many people, but, in general, it can be a time of rebirth and renewal, a slow shift from the paradigms of winter. And if there are new blossoms to look forwards Read more >
Over 500 members of the KidLit community—including Sabaa Tahir, Angie Thomas, and Jason Reynolds—have signed an open letter to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, calling for the organization to break its silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which Read more >
In news both thrilling and topical, it turns out that the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson and the twenty-first-century American bard Taylor Swift are related. Since Taylor is about to release an album called The Tortured Poets Department, Read more >
There’s a new online bookstore in town—and this time it’s helmed by RuPaul. Yes, that RuPaul. (Reading being, after all, fundamental.) Allstora, announced today*, is a membership-based bookstore that offers a profit-split to authors. RuPaul serves as Allstora’s Chief Creative Read more >
Astonishing as it may seem, March—and, with it, the spring of 2024—is already here. March, like much of 2024, will almost certainly be a month of major events, given the extraordinary confluence of conflicts and political jockeying we’ve already had Read more >
Get out your bucket hats: Sally Rooney has a new novel! Intermezzo will be arriving September 24 from FSG (and Knopf in Canada, and Faber in the UK). You are likely familiar with Rooney’s work, but just in case you Read more >
A Mask, the Color of the Sky , the latest novel by imprisoned Palestinian author Basim Khandaqji, has been named among the six finalists for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. A Mask, the Color of the Sky revolves around the Read more >
On February 24th, iconic Parisian department store Le Bon Marché unveiled a new project curated by Sarah Andelman, co-founder of the (almost) equally iconic concept store Colette. “Mise en Page,” which Andelman created with French artist Jean Jullien, who is Read more >
As February slinks to a close—and, if you’re like me, as you start wondering how on Earth it can already nearly be March!—you might be on the search for something fresh to read. If so, you’re in quite the luck, Read more >
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, written by Tony McNamara, and based on the 1992 novel Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer by the postmodern writer Alasdair Gray, was one of Literary Read more >
