A belated Happy New Year’s to all of you! To usher in 2024—and your likely resolutions to read more books this year than before, or, at least, to read a whole bunch of them—here are eighteen new books fresh off Read more >
2o24 is approaching! It’s hard to believe that 2023 is over, but a new year means new possibilities (always), new resolutions (maybe), and new books (once again, always). But it also means a new chance to pick up some excellent Read more >
One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back. Another dream of mine is to have Read more >
Starting at the end of January, Kristen Arnett will be answering all your questions about how to get by as a writer, from the daily struggle of getting words on the page to how to behave when you’ve had too Read more >
At 5:30PM yesterday evening, New York City media workers began gathering on the steps of the New York Public Library at Bryant Park to honor the lives and work of the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7. Representatives Read more >
I’m sorry, but George Santos isn’t going away. In the grand tradition of American chicanery-cum-celebrity, the ousted congressman from Long Island has tapped into this country’s mass cultural id and will be residing there for the foreseeable future (much to Read more >
The end of the year is approaching, and that means that this will be my last round-up of new books until January. Although books make excellent presents, December often represents a bit of a drought for new books, so today’s Read more >
A group of writers, artists, educators, and cultural organizations from around the world are calling for weekly sunrise-to-sunset fasts starting on Thursday, December 21 until a permanent ceasefire is called in Gaza. Inspired by the poem “Think of Others” by the Read more >
Over the past three weeks, some of the biggest names in Irish literature—including Sally Rooney, Anna Burns, Kevin Barry, Paul Lynch, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Nicole Flattery, and Mark O’Connell—came together with a number of prominent Palestinian writers (including Ahmed Masoud, Read more >
The reign of the color-blob book cover has slowly come to an end over the last several years, and various pretenders to the throne have taken their best shot at being the next trend—sans-serif minimalism (The “Cusk”); brightly-colored paper-cut-out illustrations, Read more >
On Wednesday, German newspaper Die Zeit broke the news that the ceremony to award the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen would be postponed (though not cancelled entirely) because one of the award’s main sponsors (the Green party-affiliated Read more >
Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced the longlist for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize. The prize, now in its second year, “celebrates the artistic merit of literature in translation in any genre and seeks to recognize the valuable Read more >
[Update 12/15: Masha Gessen explains the controversy in their own words] * The German Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation, “in agreement with the Bremen Senate,” is withdrawing from awarding the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to the Russian-American journalist Masha Read more >
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 >
