In the narrowest win in the award’s history, the 2024 Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year goes to The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire, a study of the mysterious and endangered Read more >
Every so often here in the Bookverse, someone hitches up their britches and pronounces criticism “dead.” They lament a media ecosystem driven by publicists, and actual or perceived reader scarcity. They yearn for the good old days, when your Normans Read more >
The earliest known writing by Franz Kafka is about to be available for bidding at the auction house Bonhams. Kafka, who would go on to write surreal and absurd books later in his life, signed a short note in the Read more >
I’m a sucker for The Best American series. For whatever reason (be it the generally strong curation, the often-fascinating opinions of guest editors, or a residual nationalism I should probably interrogate a bit more closely) I always look forward to Read more >
The 92nd Street Y held a conversation to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Caro’s landmark book The Power Broker, his masterwork on Robert Moses and how he remade New York City through an audacious program of public building. The live Read more >
December, astonishingly, is here, the tail end of a year that has felt remarkable for many reasons, too many, indeed, to list. And the year to come is one defined by extraordinary uncertainties, both in the United States and beyond. Read more >
December is finally here, the final month in a year in which time has sometimes felt more like a labyrinth than a line through calendar days, a year of sudden twists and turns. And the year to come will be Read more >
There are a lot of lackluster traditions for the day before Thanksgiving: hitting your local bar at night, prepping yourself to face your cousin with the bad politics, going toe-to-toe with fellow procrastinators over that last bag of cranberries. I’d Read more >
Maxine Hong Kingston, Alexander Chee, Alissa Nutting, David Henry Hwang, Eugene Lim, Rachel Khong, Susan Abulhawa, Susan Bernofsky, Laura van den Berg, R. O. Kwon, Bryan Washington, Danzy Senna, and Ha Jin are among the hundreds of authors who have signed Read more >
Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers and creative workers who “stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read,” released an open letter yesterday demanding publishers prepare for the incoming Trump administration. The AABB Read more >
The Dos Passos Prize for Literature, awarded by Longwood University in Virginia, has announced its shortlist of five impressive writers who are in the running for 2024’s prize. The award honors a prolific American writer who displays “characteristics of John Read more >
In the weeks since the election, I’ve felt increasingly frustrated by calls for politeness and decorum. There seems to be no end to the “why can’t we all just get along”s, the calls to be more tolerant and understanding, and Read more >
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, that curious American tradition defined as much by turkeys and stuffing as that dread certain family members feel about seeing each other–all the more so in such an election year, and a strikingly polarizing one Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author that includes a $10,000 advance, a writing residency from Millay Arts, and Read more >
Two technology behemoths recently announced that they’re moving into print, and while headlines about a company pivoting to print is a refreshing change of pace, forgive me if I don’t hold my breath. More books are always good in theory, Read more >
In 2016, the writer Andrew Lipstein and I gathered a bunch of funny and talented friends to make a magazine called Paul Ryan. It was a follow-up to a previous satire project, The Neu Jorker, and for this second outing, Read more >
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