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 The Novel Prize is awarded biennially to an unpublished work of literary fiction and “rewards novels that explore Read more >
If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book people who are working to fight censorship and protect access Read more >
You’ve tried chocolates, you’ve tried cards, you’ve even tried getting your valentine a copy of your favorite book, but they got stressed out because you were constantly watching them read like a hawk, to make sure they were reacting to Read more >
Attention fellow travelers, would-be radicals, curious culture vultures, and ABD English scholars! Our friends at Verso Books—the publishing imprint behind such titans of theory as Edward Said, Mike Davis, Judith Butler, Norman Finkelstein, and Tariq Ali—have launched a new virtual Read more >
It’s another week in a year that feels, already, like multiple years have passed, a year of head-scratching and head-spinning tumult. In times like this, it can be worthwhile—self-salvific, even—to take a break from all the news, to pause your Read more >
Though it’s by no means the worst of our worries at this moment, the evil empire has made its first moves on the culture. As Laura Grimes of Oregon ArtsWatch reported last Thursday, the Trump administration canceled a National Endowment Read more >
Photograph by Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian Israel’s genocidal aggression against Palestinians continues despite a ceasefire in Gaza, as police stormed two locations of the Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop locations in occupied Jerusalem last night, and arrested two of the owners, Mahmoud Muna and Read more >
In the immortal words of Blink 182, “Work sucks, I know.” It always has. But it’s only recently that we in the mainstream have begun to state this truth as plainly as Tom DeLonge. Why should that be? For one Read more >
Beloved (and bestselling) novelist Tom Robbins—arguably most famous for his 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, adapted into a film by Gus Van Sant, and 1980’s Still Life with Woodpecker—died on Sunday at the age of 92. Robbins was Read more >
This week marks the anniversary of the first issue of Reader’s Digest—for the unacquainted, there’s a great overview of the history of the magazine in this week’s Literary History newsletter. I got curious and decided to reread this first issue, Read more >
This week, the 43rd John Dos Passos Prize was awarded to novelist and editor Angie Cruz (How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water; Dominicana; Let it Rain Coffee) by Longwood University. The Dos Passos Prize is the oldest Read more >
In her new book, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, scholar Elyse Graham explores the secret history of U.S. intelligence and lays out yet another reason why you should thank a Read more >
This week, 404 Media, which is publishing some really essential writing these days and is well worth your support, featured an excellent piece on the problem librarians are facing as their ebook collections start to fill up with AI slop. Read more >
Photo by AP Photo/Brynn Anderson via The Buffalo News Groundhog Day was over the weekend, an event I haven’t paid much attention to since I was a kid. But an odd detail from a news story — the existence of Read more >
If you—or, let’s face it, one of your retired family members—are looking for a historical side hustle, there’s a team in Washington who want to see you. A team of Top Men. The National Archives is seeking volunteers to help transcribe Read more >
This week, the book-reading internet was apparently in a mild uproar over six redesigns of Jane Austen novels, which will be published—with new introductions from popular contemporary YA romance novelists like Ali Hazelwood and Tessa Bailey—by Puffin, Penguin UK’s children’s Read more >
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