Photo by Howard Smith-Imagn Images, from SI.com James Earl Jones died on Monday at the age of 93, after a career filled with iconic performances, including in Star Wars, The Lion King, Roots, The Great White Hope, and a movie Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 141 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Translated Literature are Read more >
Last week, amid ongoing controversy over its primary sponsor’s links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, the embattled Giller Foundation quietly dropped ‘Scotiabank’ from the title of its flagship literary award. From here on out, the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada’s Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 333 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Young People’s Read more >
It’s another Tuesday in September, and the wheel of the year continues to turn quickly, so quickly that I am still vaguely expecting it to be the end of August. When time seems to move too fast, it might be Read more >
Today, the British Academy announced the 2024 shortlist for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. The international prize, now in its 12th year, celebrates “groundbreaking works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public Read more >
This back-to-school season brings bad tidings for dissent. Here in the U.S., academic institutions continue to restrict, thwart, and punish pro-Palestinian speech from students, employees, and teachers alike. After coming under fire for their treatment of campus protesters last term, Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 12th annual American Library in Paris Award, which recognizes titles originally published in English “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with Read more >
I know, I know. Leaves are turning. Charli’s called it. It’s been fun, but it would seem we’re just about done with this nebulous wink of an aesthetic category. But before we shift wholeheartedly into Demure Autumn, I’d like to Read more >
As Publishers Weekly reported this week, the Internet Archive, nonprofit home to a robust digital library, has lost its latest appeal in a case brought by publishers. A panel from New York’s Second Circuit “has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 Read more >
Little Free Library has debuted a new interactive map on its website that charts the locations of Little Free Libraries across the United States, alongside the number of book bans that are in place in each state. The organization built Read more >
Today, McGill University announced the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, honoring books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” The winner, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and diverse appeal,” will be announced next month, Read more >
Election season is in full swing, and if your phone is anything like mine, you’re constantly getting robotic, automated text messages from candidates. No matter how many times you reply “stop” or throw your phone across the room, they just Read more >
Beetlejuice was one of the weirder things to happen to 1988, an already weird year. Who but the mad king Tim Burton could have foreseen that throwing Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat,” Louise Bourgeois-derivative sculpture, peak Goth Winona, and a roided Read more >
NaNoWriMo, the tongue-twister acronym for National Novel Writing Month, was in the hot seat on social media this weekend for their support of AI writing. The organization facilitates a community of people who sprint to finish a manuscript over the Read more >
There’s mud, there’s blood, there’s a woman being impolite in public: the first trailer for Nightbitch is live. And hungry. Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), who directs the Annapurna Pictures adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s hit 2021 novel Nightbitch—in which, Read more >
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