It’s another Tuesday in September, and the wheel of the year continues to turn quickly, so quickly that I am still vaguely expecting it to be the end of August. When time seems to move too fast, it might be Read more >
Today, the British Academy announced the 2024 shortlist for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. The international prize, now in its 12th year, celebrates “groundbreaking works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public Read more >
This back-to-school season brings bad tidings for dissent. Here in the U.S., academic institutions continue to restrict, thwart, and punish pro-Palestinian speech from students, employees, and teachers alike. After coming under fire for their treatment of campus protesters last term, Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 12th annual American Library in Paris Award, which recognizes titles originally published in English “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with Read more >
I know, I know. Leaves are turning. Charli’s called it. It’s been fun, but it would seem we’re just about done with this nebulous wink of an aesthetic category. But before we shift wholeheartedly into Demure Autumn, I’d like to Read more >
As Publishers Weekly reported this week, the Internet Archive, nonprofit home to a robust digital library, has lost its latest appeal in a case brought by publishers. A panel from New York’s Second Circuit “has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 Read more >
Little Free Library has debuted a new interactive map on its website that charts the locations of Little Free Libraries across the United States, alongside the number of book bans that are in place in each state. The organization built Read more >
Today, McGill University announced the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, honoring books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” The winner, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and diverse appeal,” will be announced next month, Read more >
Election season is in full swing, and if your phone is anything like mine, you’re constantly getting robotic, automated text messages from candidates. No matter how many times you reply “stop” or throw your phone across the room, they just Read more >
Beetlejuice was one of the weirder things to happen to 1988, an already weird year. Who but the mad king Tim Burton could have foreseen that throwing Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat,” Louise Bourgeois-derivative sculpture, peak Goth Winona, and a roided Read more >
NaNoWriMo, the tongue-twister acronym for National Novel Writing Month, was in the hot seat on social media this weekend for their support of AI writing. The organization facilitates a community of people who sprint to finish a manuscript over the Read more >
There’s mud, there’s blood, there’s a woman being impolite in public: the first trailer for Nightbitch is live. And hungry. Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), who directs the Annapurna Pictures adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s hit 2021 novel Nightbitch—in which, Read more >
In a 2016 review of Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others, the novelist Joshua Cohen boldly declared, “There is no such thing as the Friendship Plot, because while friendship, like marriage, is at least presumably a voluntary estate, it has no Read more >
What a start to September! It’s a new month and new season alike, and to usher it in, you’ll find a veritable cornucopia of new books to consider adding to your lists. Below, you’ll find no less than twenty-seven options Read more >
There have been some grim and abrupt firings at Stanford’s creative writing program recently, threatening to upend the writing institution founded in 1946 by Wallace Stegner. The firings are a blow not just to the individuals who have been reshuffled Read more >
Have you heard the news? Critics and culture writers who miss The People’s Twitter (TM) have been flocking to Substack in search of communal pastures. Jami Attenberg’s popular #1000wordsofsummer project first appeared on the platform, as an offshoot of her Read more >
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