On Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces bombed a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike killed seven people, including Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Read more >
Many of our best writers have played the fake name game. Call it what you will—an alias, a pseudonym. But from Samuel Clemens to She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, we can find a gamut of wily writers determined to evade the postman. Or possibly, Read more >
A cool August week here in New York, and I’ve been obsessing over tomatoes. Peak tomato season is the best, an ecstatic experience, and in my humble opinion a redeeming moment for summer, which is otherwise too hot and sweaty Read more >
The theme this week is small attention. Whether palpating the perfect nightshade or kneeling at the church of secular folk, we spent time looking and listening close. Small things—good jokes, cupcakes, asides—kept the engines running. Drew Broussard went to a Read more >
Is James Patterson writing his own stuff these days? He’s seems to have a very full dance card as a collaborator/brand/the head of a Renaissance-style artist’s guild. He’s co-bylined books with the likes of Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Mr. Read more >
In fresh hell, Trump signed a law “clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting” this week. This move effectively decimates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has conducted federal funds to NPR and PBS for nearly 60 years. Read more >
Today we mark the launch of a new literary institution: the National Association of Black Bookstores. A nonprofit collective and member-based organization, the NAB2 looks to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact Read more >
If you’re curious about what’s going on in the heads of our Supreme Court’s most regressive and Trump-loving minds, publishing has got you covered. Three books by conservative robesters are on the docket: Basic Books has a book slated for Read more >
As we’ve covered here, The New York Times has been among the most egregious when it comes to promulgating right-wing Israeli propaganda about the ongoing genocide. As James North reported in Mondoweiss last week, just days after publishing its first Read more >
August is here, and with this new month comes new books to look forward to—and we certainly need things to look forward to. Below, you’ll find a whopping twenty-seven new books to consider in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, spanning everything Read more >
It’s been a big book year for ex-pats. For perhaps obvious reasons, a lot of Americans seem to be getting off on the idea of fleeing the coop. Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, a ruthless depiction of two PMC EU citizens trying Read more >
David Grossman, widely considered to be Israel’s most prominent novelist, has described his country’s campaign in Gaza as a genocide. Speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, in an interview published earlier today, the award-winning author and recipient of the 2018 Read more >
Welcome to August! The last third of summer begins, but there’s still plenty of time to finish reading that long book you’ve been working through and plenty of time to squeeze in one last trip to the ocean/lake/river/creek/body of water Read more >
This week’s little joys are all about razzle-dazzle. We dug new music, and movies. Some of us made these things. And we drew inspiration from sparkly genre pieces, from near and far in space and time. To start with magic. Read more >
Like a lot of New York City residents, my local subway station is essentially another room in my apartment. I’m very influenced by how things are going in my underground corner of the city. And like most places in America, Read more >
August, astonishingly, is here, and it feels hard to believe that the summer is nearing its end. But so it goes. And with such so-going, you should know what I have to say next: that I come bearing the good Read more >
Last summer, Miranda July’s All Fours drove certain groupchats to frenzy. Takes were hot. Hats were made. Some of us almost came to blows about that ending, while others circulated this meme in a general gesture of support. In certain Read more >
Today, the Academy of American Poets announced the recipients of their 2025 Laureate Fellowships, which award $50,000 each to 23 poets laureate currently serving in cities and states across the country. The Academy will also “provide more than $95,000 total Read more >
This August, you can read poems and support Palestine thanks to the Sealey Challenge and The Sameer Project. The Sealey Challenge is a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry every day in August. To motivate readers, The Read more >
“There are certain historical moments when learning is more compressed and intense than others,” wrote Howard Zinn, a month after 9/11. The historian was writing in a moment of tremendous, escalating violence, and he sensed more death and destruction looming. Read more >
