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 >
Photo by Mindy Tucker Telling a good, smart joke about immigration is hard. Not only is it a fraught and complicated topic, but it’s a space that’s overstuffed with bad, right-wing attempts at comedy. Too often immigrants are the targets Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a woman aged 30 or younger,” who Read more >
As a New York City resident, I don’t really have any good governments at the moment. Federally I’m being governed by mendacious and grubbing hogmen, statewide I’m being represented by uninspired and fiddling centrists, and at the local city-level, I’m Read more >
Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem. As covered in The Verge, the mega-corporation is removing a feature that lets ebook Read more >
“Many of Edward Gorey’s most fervent devotees,” Stephen Schiff wrote in a profile of the artist in The New Yorker in 1992, “think he’s (a) English and (b) dead. Actually, he has never so much as visited either place.” Alas, he Read more >
This Black History Month is the fraughtest. Maybe even apex fraught. As many hard-won minority group commemorations are being actively scrubbed from government websites, we the recognized are asked to consider what those commemorations have come to mean under elite Read more >
As February unfurls, there is no shortage to the chaos and carnage that have come to define 2025 thus far, particularly in the United States, where it has become the norm to bemoan yet another constitutional crisis unfolding with little Read more >
The great F. Scott Fitzgerald has been stolen. Lifted. Carried away. I should clarify; not the man himself. For all we know, the novelist’s cremains are still safe and sound at his final resting place in a Rockville cemetery. It’s Read more >
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched a curated subscription service, the PalFest Bookshelf, which will deliver the best new books on Palestine, along with bespoke extras, straight to your door each month. Subscribers will receive six key books a Read more >
Out of 1,100 submissions, writer Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child has won the 2024 Novel Prize, and will be published early next year. The Novel Prize is awarded biennially to an unpublished work of literary fiction and “rewards novels that explore Read more >
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