Literary Hub is pleased to announce the 2024 class of Periplus Fellows. This year, Periplus awarded a total of 48 mentorships to writers of color living and working in the United States—selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants—pairing Read more >
This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2024 finalists, chosen from a total of 113 submissions. “Even after reading more than 20,000 short story collections over the twenty years this Read more >
I’m still processing that it’s now 2024—I just almost wrote “2023” again!—and it can feel a little disorienting to enter a new year for the first few days, if not weeks. But there are reliable things to look forward to, Read more >
It’s easy to ridicule Florida for all its feverish urges to ban sexy books, but America’s latest obsession with censorship has truly gone nationwide. Towards the end of last year, in deeply blue, liberal Massachusetts (at W.E.B. DuBois Middle School Read more >
Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has devastated all aspects of life in the region. The starving, traumatized survivors of relentless Israeli airstrikes spend their days digging through rubble with their bare hands. Health care workers and journalists are targeted by Read more >
Today, the Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the recipients of the third annual Silvers-Dudley Prizes, which recognize “outstanding achievement in literary criticism, arts writing, and journalism.” The six winners will receive a total of $135,000—with individual prizes ranging from $15,000 Read more >
Another year has come and gone, full of best books—and also bestsellers. As it turns out, just 23 percent of the bestselling books of 2023 were actually published in 2023—which is only a slightly smaller share than last year. Backlist Read more >
A belated Happy New Year’s to all of you! To usher in 2024—and your likely resolutions to read more books this year than before, or, at least, to read a whole bunch of them—here are eighteen new books fresh off Read more >
2o24 is approaching! It’s hard to believe that 2023 is over, but a new year means new possibilities (always), new resolutions (maybe), and new books (once again, always). But it also means a new chance to pick up some excellent Read more >
One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back. Another dream of mine is to have Read more >
Starting at the end of January, Kristen Arnett will be answering all your questions about how to get by as a writer, from the daily struggle of getting words on the page to how to behave when you’ve had too Read more >
At 5:30PM yesterday evening, New York City media workers began gathering on the steps of the New York Public Library at Bryant Park to honor the lives and work of the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7. Representatives Read more >
I’m sorry, but George Santos isn’t going away. In the grand tradition of American chicanery-cum-celebrity, the ousted congressman from Long Island has tapped into this country’s mass cultural id and will be residing there for the foreseeable future (much to Read more >
The end of the year is approaching, and that means that this will be my last round-up of new books until January. Although books make excellent presents, December often represents a bit of a drought for new books, so today’s Read more >
A group of writers, artists, educators, and cultural organizations from around the world are calling for weekly sunrise-to-sunset fasts starting on Thursday, December 21 until a permanent ceasefire is called in Gaza. Inspired by the poem “Think of Others” by the Read more >
Over the past three weeks, some of the biggest names in Irish literature—including Sally Rooney, Anna Burns, Kevin Barry, Paul Lynch, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Nicole Flattery, and Mark O’Connell—came together with a number of prominent Palestinian writers (including Ahmed Masoud, Read more >
The reign of the color-blob book cover has slowly come to an end over the last several years, and various pretenders to the throne have taken their best shot at being the next trend—sans-serif minimalism (The “Cusk”); brightly-colored paper-cut-out illustrations, Read more >
On Wednesday, German newspaper Die Zeit broke the news that the ceremony to award the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen would be postponed (though not cancelled entirely) because one of the award’s main sponsors (the Green party-affiliated Read more >
Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced the longlist for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize. The prize, now in its second year, “celebrates the artistic merit of literature in translation in any genre and seeks to recognize the valuable Read more >
[Update 12/15: Masha Gessen explains the controversy in their own words] * The German Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation, “in agreement with the Bremen Senate,” is withdrawing from awarding the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to the Russian-American journalist Masha Read more >
