It’s the middle of November, which means that, for many of us, the days are a not-quite-enviable blend of colder and shorter (why we still use Daylight Savings Time is a mystery I’ll save for elsewhere). But never fear, there’s Read more >
On 8 November 1623, the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays was registered, bringing together the great playwright’s work as a single printed collection for the first time and saving it for centuries to come. 400 years on, Folio is delighted Read more >
Over 2000 poets and writers—including Danez Smith, Franny Choi, Safiya Sinclair, Daniel José Older, Jamel Brinkley, Hala Alyan, and Javier Zamora—have pledged to boycott the Poetry Foundation (as well as it’s poetry journal, Poetry), citing “a recent instance of prejudiced silencing” Read more >
On November 11th, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the winners of the 25th National Translation Awards. The NTAs are awarded, in both poetry and prose, to “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English Read more >
Dr. Fady Joudah—an award-winning Palestinian American writer, poet, and physician, whose essay, “A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation,” we were proud to publish last week—has lost more than fifty members of his extended family in Gaza in the past Read more >
Everyone knows that Kurt Vonnegut loved music. There’s that quote, you know the one. Vonnegut liked to repeat himself, but here’s how it appears in A Man Without a Country: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our Read more >
Tania Branigan has won the 2023 Cundill History Prize for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution. “Haunting and memorable, Tania Branigan’s sensitive study of the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the lives and psyches of an entire Read more >
It’s November, which means that n+1 is back with Bookmatch, a weird and honestly very fun personality test that will, through important questions like “what finger are you” and “where did you leave your phone,” and with the help of Read more >
November has finally arrived, and, although the weather for many of us has cooled a bit, the pace of new books for you to check out hasn’t cooled at all. Below, you’ll find a delightful array of books by writers Read more >
Rupi Kaur—the Canadian poetry phenom whose collections have sold more than 11 million copies worldwide—has declined an invitation from the Biden White House for a a Diwali event being held by the Vice President on November 8, citing the administration’s Read more >
It hasn’t quite been two years since Joan Didion died, and she’s already getting the biopic treatment. A new, currently untitled film by Matthew Wilder, which “chronicles the life and work” of the woman on your tote bag, is set Read more >
Today in London, the British Academy announced the winner of the 11th British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das. “Nandini Das has written the true origin Read more >
Last Thursday, a group of writers, editors, and academics known as the Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG)—an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people and modeled on American Writers Against the Read more >
It’s the 31st of October, that most iconically bewitching day of the month when, we are told, the borders between the worlds of the living and the dead are thinner than ever. Whatever you might make of such sepulchral possibilities, Read more >
November is almost upon us, and, as the weather cools, you might find yourself wanting to reach for a new book to curl up with, perhaps even one you found yourself eying on the shelves earlier. If so, you’re in Read more >
Yesterday, a group of writers, editors, and academics known as the Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG)—an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people and modeled on American Writers Against the War Read more >
This spooky season, why not get under the covers and let Shirley Jackson read to you? It is possible, thanks to the magic of the internet. In 1960, five years before her death, Shirley Jackson recorded readings of “The Lottery” Read more >
The child who got us onto the Dory Fantasmagory books was fiercely cool and advanced at age 5: she dressed as Beetlejuice for Halloween, wore eyeliner, and once told my kid that she caught her mom putting money under her Read more >
Novelist, poet, and educator Heba Abu Nada, a beloved figure in the Palestinian literary community and the author of Oxygen is Not for the Dead, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Friday. She was thirty-two years old. In her final Read more >
We’re nearing the end of October, and that can mean many things to many a person: that you really need to figure out what costume you’re going to wear to that party because you’ve put it off all month; that it’s Read more >
