Today, Chicago-based arts organization United States Artists announced their 2025 USA Fellows, a group of 50 artists, including seven Writing Fellows, each of whom will receive a cash award of $50,000. Recipients are encouraged to use this unrestricted grant “for any Read more >
It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as though a whole year or more had already rushed by. Read more >
The late Jackie Collins left an eccentric legacy. In addition to the loving family, spicy reputation, and 32(!) bestselling bodice-rippers and crime dramas, there’s. This. House. Though perhaps “house” isn’t quite the right word for a bespoke multi-million-dollar mansion whose architect Read more >
On January 3rd, Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes left her post after charging her publisher with censorship. In a Substack letter, the artist explained her reason. Her editors unceremoniously dropped a piece poking fun at “the billionaire tech and media Read more >
Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects their lives, and Read more >
As of this morning, you can now easily buy ebooks from your local indie bookstore. Thanks to Bookshop.org, the reigning David to Am*zon’s Goliath. As Wired reports, a new platform on the site will now sell ebooks directly to customers. Read more >
January is nearing its end, and what a January it has been, marked by natural and political disaster alike, a month in which America, to any paying attention, takes its most overt steps into a pay-to-play system of corruption and Read more >
This Friday, the Trump administration moved to support the proliferation of book bans across the United States. Late last week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights not-so-quietly dropped 11 open complaints against school districts that have removed what Read more >
Mosab Abu Toha, the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian (who, in November 2023, was kidnapped by Israeli forces as he tried to get his young family out of Gaza) has released a statement confirming the destruction of the Edward Read more >
Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced their finalists for the best books published in 2024—30 books in six categories—as well as the finalists or winners of five special annual awards: two lifetime achievement awards, the NBCC Service Award, the Read more >
“Is it or is it not fascism” is a debate we’re going to be having a lot in the next few years, I’m afraid. And while there is perhaps an intellectual rigor to sussing out an answer, there are also Read more >
It’s a funny time to think about national reading habits. I’ve been looking for escape pods, personally. Books that take me far from this particular time and zip code. Perhaps riding the same wave, our friends at The Drift dedicated Read more >
There’s much to say today and this week, particularly for those of you in the United States, as we brace ourselves for the turbulence and tumult of a grinningly authoritarian, grinningly small-minded and small-hearted regime taking control of America’s government. Read more >
With news coming in earlier today that Israel’s security cabinet has, after some delay, ratified the Gaza ceasefire agreement, it looks as if the carnage that has enveloped the strip for over fifteen months will, on Sunday, finally come to Read more >
High-school is Twin Peaks. All the cool girls are Audrey for Halloween, eerily twisting in pencil skirts. Unless they’re the Log Lady. Every cup of coffee is “damn good.” College is Blue Velvet country. At every party, some bro will parrot Read more >
The new year means new calendars you’ll stop using in a month, new resolutions you’ll break in a week, and new public domain works you can remix and ruin all year long. And in 2025, a lot of classics are Read more >
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