Hello, hello, Dear Readers! It’s just about the middle of January, and what a start to the year it has already been, a year already defined, it seems, by its inability to be pinned down, by its chaotic tumult of Read more >
Photo from Fox’s Twitter/X account I’m not a big football fan, but I did watch a lot of skateboarding videos as a teen so I understand the appeal of a sport that involves lots of concussions. So I nearly missed Read more >
Another major academic org is in turmoil over Palestine. This weekend, members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) protested the group’s annual convention in New Orleans after the executive council refused to hold a vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution. As Read more >
In pleasant book news, the New York Public Library has acquired Jhumpa Lahiri’s archive. The beloved multilingual translator and award-winning author’s papers will now be available to view in the Berg Collection of English and American Literature, located in the Read more >
This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2025 finalists, chosen from a total of 107 submissions. “Each of these three story collections is so original in conception and brilliantly executed Read more >
Friends, you read that right. A new film is coming to theaters in January that is… Hamlet staged in the Grand Theft Auto video game. Yes, Hamlet acted out by video game avatars, shot in-frame, and edited into its own Read more >
Yesterday, UNICEF reported that at least 74 Palestinian children were killed by Israel in the first week of 2025. Also yesterday, Haaretz reported that Israel blocked a UN probe into sexual crimes alleged to have been carried out by Hamas on Read more >
At the end of the last few years, I’ve made a habit of putting together a list of the top 100 words I’ve published most frequently that year. It’s admittedly a strange and arbitrary way to look at a year’s Read more >
Every year, Periplus awards 48 mentorships to writers of color living and working in the United States, pairing each one with a member of the collective, an established writer who will meet monthly with their mentee to foster community, support Read more >
Now that we’ve closed the book on 2024, it’s time to assess its cultural products. Let’s start with movies. This week the Golden Globes distributed their brassy trophies, and the SAG awards listed their nominations. It was an exciting year Read more >
I’ve never taken a business school class, but I have to imagine that one of the very first things they teach you is “make sure to not say racist things to your customers,” right after you learn, “this money line Read more >
Today, The DAG Foundation for the Arts, established by musicians Alyssa and Douglas Graham, announces the DAG Prize for Literature, a new annual prize that will award $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for American Read more >
A new year is here, a year defined, already, by its uncertainties, by its unmappable contours. So it goes. What is certain, Dear Readers, is that there are new books out today, new things to keep at our side as Read more >
Ah, January 6th. A day that many of us stateside recall for unsavory reasons. But may I present a new cause célèbre? Friends, what if I told you today was not Coup Day, nor Failed Insurrection Day, nor even the Read more >
The first week of 2025(!) brings—what else—more outrage. But today we look to a few good profs. This Sunday, following “a boisterous, hourlong, standing-room-only meeting,” the American Historical Association moved to condemn the ongoing scholasticide in Gaza. Founded in 1884 Read more >
Well, well. 2025, miraculously and mundanely, is here. For many readers in America and the world at large, this January represents the beginning of new cycles in more than one way, including the start of a new political reign in Read more >
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