On December 7, the beloved Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Refaat Alareer was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her children. In the week of mourning since, tributes Read more >
A Roosevelt Island couple has proudly checked out five children’s books about the Palestinian experience, vowing not to return them so as to protect the good people of New York from blatant “indoctrination.” According the NY Post: The books — Read more >
We’re nearing the middle of December, a month in which the publishing industry, unlike our frenzied quests to find last-minute gifts, tends to slow down. As a result, though books make quite excellent presents, there aren’t always as many brand-new Read more >
As you probably know, Literary Hub is produced by a small staff; most of us are writers, and/or moonlight as editors on other projects. This year, four of our number—that would be 36% percent of full time Literary Hub staffers, not Read more >
Palestine, Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco’s seminal nonfiction graphic novel about Gaza, which pioneered the medium of “comics journalism” upon its publication over twenty years ago, has been rushed back into print in response to surging demand. First published across Read more >
Dozens of indie booksellers, from stores across America, have signed an open letter in support of Palestine. Signatories from some of this country’s best bookstores—in Seattle, Oakland, Chicago—have lent their names to a letter that says, in part: As workers Read more >
The Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed today in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her children. He is survived by his wife, Nusayba, and their children. Dr. Read more >
A sobering new report, released yesterday by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, details the devastating impact two months of Israeli bombardment have had on the cultural sector of Gaza. Titled “Second Preliminary Report on Cultural Sector Damage,” the wide-ranging report begins Read more >
I’m very happy to announce that, starting in January 2024, Lit Hub will feature two new columnists, Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman. Anyone familiar with Lit Hub (and the literary internet, for that matter) will know the work of Kristen Read more >
Showing absolute dedication to her craft (and to authenticity) Ava DuVernay recreated 1930s Nazi book burnings in the actual location they took place. For a scene in her new movie, Origin—which is inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste—DuVernay got special Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the ten 2023 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, which seeks to “foster original, ambitious projects brought to the highest possible standard” by supporting authors with nonfiction books in progress. “This year’s grantees Read more >
This week, the 42nd John Dos Passos Prize was awarded to novelist and short story writer Patricia Engel (Vida; The Veins of the Ocean; Infinite Country; The Faraway World) by Longwood University. The Dos Passos Prize is the oldest literary Read more >
The wheel of the year always keeps turning, and, no matter how unreasonably fast or glacially slow it seems to do so, it always, eventually, reaches December, that beginning of an end. But it’s also the beginning, looked at another Read more >
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, his wife, and their three children have made it to Egypt. Abu Toha—whose Twitter feed these past eight weeks has been a litany of eyewitness horrors, desperate pleas for help to the international community, and achingly Read more >
Look, we’re no huge fans of the Cheney family around here, but Liz Cheney’s steadfast commitment to calling a thing what it is—namely, the almost total moral bankruptcy of a Republican Party that prefers power over principle and a man Read more >
The sales are over (mostly), the pie has been eaten (mostly), the gratitude has been felt (mostly), and we’re back to work (er, completely, boss!) It’s time for Giving Tuesday, so why not consider donating a few dollars to these Read more >
Spurred on by a silencing of Palestinian voices within the Western cultural industry and horrified by “Israel’s incessant bombardment of Gaza as a form of collective punishment,” a collective of more than 350 global publishers and people working in the Read more >
In a refreshing “quiet part loud” moment earlier this fall, this year’s celebrity Booker judge, Peep Show’s Robert Webb, admitted publicly that it’s basically impossible to read the entire pre-longlist pool of 163 books in seven months. While that’s not Read more >
November is nearing its end, and, after a holiday weekend that may have been filled as much with leftovers as the kind of family drama that makes you wish for the power of invisibility, you may be coming into this Read more >
Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was being observed between Israel and Hamas. As reported Read more >
