Today, Jenny Erpenbeck became the first German writer to win the International Booker Prize for translated fiction for Kairos, her affecting novel about a love affair in the waning days of a divided Berlin. She shares the £50,000 prize equally Read more >
Image from Youtube If you were the kind of young reader that I was, you devoured the Redwall books by Brian “allowed to smoke indoors” Jacques as fast as you could. The medieval-inspired fantasy books about mice, otters, hedgehogs and Read more >
Over one hundred Kundiman fellows and community members—including Ocean Vuong, Alexander Chee, and Solmaz Sharif—have signed an open letter calling for the resignation of the entire Board of Trustees of the prominent nonprofit organization for writers and readers of Asian American Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
Want to know what the best youth poets in America are thinking? Literary Hub is pleased to exclusively share a poem, collaboratively written by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ National Student Poets, along with new data from the Scholastic Read more >
What a day for new books! As summer approaches, we have no shortage of terrific new tomes to consider, with strong, wide-ranging showings in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates is back with Butcher, a scathing fictional exploration Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
Many pitfalls and impediments lay between you and a day of enjoying your book in peace. Can you manage to get past everything arrayed against you? Choose wisely! Your phone buzzes. A text: “Hey we’re all headed out to the Read more >
Since the 1930s, the annual Cannes international film festival has been a glamorous hub for new cinema. (And, according to an audacious claim on its website: the world’s “most widely publicized cultural event.”) While the festival’s carefully cultivated position at Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
If you’re anything like us, you took one look at King Charles’ new royal portrait and thought, “This looks like cover art for a Romantasy book.” The red-washed painting is perfect for a book about a lonely king falling in Read more >
Are you ready to take a trip? Elastic, a biannual print magazine of psychedelic art and literature that will debut in spring 2025, aims to publish art and writing that’s “immersive, dreamlike, daring, genre- and time-bending, and that acts to Read more >
Get in, loser. We’re apparently headed…back to the Shire. That’s right, all you elves and hobbits. You Dúnedain and Nazgûl. Earlier this week, news dropped of an addition to the ever-expanding Lord of the Rings’ cinematic universe. According to OG Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
Ahead of the UK festival season, more than 200 authors—including Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney, Natalie Diaz, and Robert Macfarlane—have signed a statement by Fossil Free Books (FFB) which puts increased pressure on investment management firm Baillie Gifford, sponsors of the Read more >
Yesterday, the iconic Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna published a memoir with Ecco/HarperCollins. And Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk is already being touted as an “electric, searing” history from one of rock’s biggest icons. Unfortunately, the book has Read more >
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