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The official trailer for One Hundred Years of Solitude is here.

Gabo-heads (Gab-lins?), rejoice: the trailer for the upcoming mini-series adaptation of the Márquez masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has officially dropped. And though we’ve been burned before by attempts to put the master’s works on celluloid (Love in the Time Read more >

By Brittany Allen

A case for replacing the Times' op-ed section with these classic columns.

In a recent entry from his excellent newsletter “How Things Work,” the labor journalist Hamilton Nolan decried the state of the column, as epitomized in the op-ed section of the paper of record. In a snort-inducing takedown, Nolan argued that Read more >

By Brittany Allen

What if Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales came out today?

Today is the anniversary of Geoffrey Chaucer’s first reading of  The Canterbury Tales in 1387, when he performed the epic at the court of King Richard II. It’s the perfect day to reread a tale or two, rewatch A Knight’s Read more >

By James Folta

A new Ocean Vuong novel is coming next summer.

Ocean Vuong has a new novel set to be published in June 2025, as announced on Publishers Marketplace and Vuong’s Instagram. The Emperor of Gladness is Vuong’s second novel, and “follows a year in the life of a wayward young Read more >

By James Folta

What is the point of the author interview?

This weekend, inspired by a rewatch of James L. Brooks’ 1987 masterpiece Broadcast News, I got to thinking about the art (and point) of the interview. Especially here, on our little island called the literary world.  There’s a real and Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Véra Nabokov! Darkly humorous sleaze! 22 new books out today.

It’s the middle of April, a time when the transcendent experience of seeing a total eclipse the previous week—if you were lucky enough to geographically and meteorologically—has, for many readers, been eclipsed by the signature rain and lightning of the Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Have you filed your taxes yet? Kick back with some taxes in fiction anyway.

Try as they might, the IRS can’t manage to make the vital work of tax collection simple or enjoyable. The agency can be fun-ish. They produced a Star Trek parody in 2010—fun!—but were later chastised by Congress for the production Read more >

By James Folta

Here are the 2024 finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize.

Today, the Gotham Book Prize, an annual award that began during the first year of the pandemic to honor and support the best writing about New York City, whether fiction or nonfiction, announced its eleven 2024 finalists. “It’s impossible to capture Read more >

By Literary Hub

Exclusive: Read a new poem by National Book Award finalist Joan Wickersham.

In September, poet Joan Wickersham’s No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck will be published by Eastover Press. Lit Hub got a sneak peak, and we’re excited to share a new poem from the collection. According to the publisher, Read more >

By Literary Hub

You’re wrong about reading in bars.

I like to think of online discourse as a neverending bar crawl. A roving and insatiable crowd plods around, periodically busting in on the unsuspecting to cheer, boo, and brawl to exhaustion, and then parade off to the next destination. Read more >

By James Folta

A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

There’s just something about the Golden Age of Hollywood. Though I know all that glitters covers doom and profound exploitation, my personal heart beats a little faster when confronted with a Busby Berkeley kick line or a painted backdrop. Give me Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Shop with solidarity at these unionized (and unionizing) stores and publishers.

Looking to spend your book budget more wisely? We’ve compiled a list of publishers and bookstores that are unionized or in the process of unionizing that deserve your business. Some of these bookstores are still in the process of unionizing, Read more >

By James Folta

Office hours with a hunger striker.

Last semester at Dartmouth, I taught a course on literature and philosophy called “Introduction to Aesthetics.” We spent two full weeks discussing Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory, in particular his idea that when we say something is beautiful, we are doing Read more >

By Nirvana Tanoukhi

Here are the winners of the 2024 Whiting Awards.

In a ceremony on Wednesday night, the Whiting Foundation announced the ten new recipients of the Whiting Award, an award “designed to recognize excellence and promise in a spectrum of emerging talent.” The award comes with a monetary prize of Read more >

By Emily Temple

Withdrawals and protests are roiling the PEN America Literary Awards.

Less than a month out from the 20th incarnation of its flagship World Voices Festival, the protests against PEN America’s response to the war on Gaza are continuing to mount. In just the last few days, several authors have withdrawn Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

An open letter from North American scholars condemns the "scholasticide" in Gaza.

A group of academics affiliated with North American institutions have written an open letter condemning the ongoing scholasticide in Gaza. This marks the most recent collective gesture in a series of statements from anti-genocidal culture workers. But unlike other expressions Read more >

By Brittany Allen