At a ceremony in New York City this evening, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize, given annual in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. “This year’s prize-winning books—each written with elegance and lucidity—illuminate tragedies both Read more >
Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last week, and no, we’re still not over it! Beating out a sea of favored predictions, Kang’s singularly surreal and audacious prose was a dark horse for Big Swede recognition. The academy praised Kang Read more >
Arundhati Roy, the internationally celebrated author and human rights activist, has once again proven herself to be a model culture worker. On receiving the PEN Foundation’s annually given Pinter Prize last week, Roy announced that she’d be donating her prize Read more >
Ah, the end of film festival season. That magical time of year when all the critics make their award predictions, and all your MoviePass pals are clogging theaters, eager to catch the indies without big distribution deals before they disappear Read more >
October rolls on, the air slowly chilling, the leaves coolly burning, the transitional nature of October as a month of transformation gradually asserting itself. It is a time when the boundaries between things may seem more porous than ever, a Read more >
We’re well into Halloween’s favorite month — October — when costumed kids, Hot Topic teens, and arts-and-crafts-obsessed adults all join together to celebrate the season of spookiness. If you’ve been feeling a little left out, we’ve got your back. I Read more >
Today, at an event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Peter Hoskin announced the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, which recognizes the best books in the category published in English in the UK over the past year. Read more >
Today, the American Literary Translators Association announced its shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards, which celebrate “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate Read more >
The Met Gala is being literary again. On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition, which also traditionally serves as the Met Gala theme: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” First of all, according to Vogue, Read more >
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In Read more >
Image from Desert Island’s fundraiser. Here’s some good news to brighten your Wednesday: after being threatened with eviction, beloved indie comic shop Desert Island raised nearly $90,000 in three days to keep the shop in business. The outpouring of support Read more >
The bookish sister, under-regarded in every film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is finally getting a new lease on life. A new BBC adaptation will pay special attention to Mary’s journey. As The AV Club reported, “To commemorate the 30th Read more >
Book bans are far too common these days, and a recent development has added a new and disturbing wrinkle: right-wing censors in Utah have set their sights on Little Free Libraries. Typically these censorship efforts have focused on public libraries Read more >
Last week, the world’s most perfect television show celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under-loved on its initial release, Freaks and Geeks now enjoys one of the smugger lost cause fan clubs. We are legion, us torch-holders for Lindsay and Sam. As Read more >
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday, October 10. Who will win? As ever, no one knows. But everyone likes to guess…and bet. And because money talks, the betting odds can tell you a lot. Or Read more >
October is moving briskly along. If it’s all moving a bit too quickly, and you need to slow down for a bit with a brilliant new book, you’re in luck. Below, you’ll find twenty-five exciting, distinctive works out today in Read more >
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