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Tommy Orange! Carson McCullers! The Village Voice! 24 new books out today.

As February slinks to a close—and, if you’re like me, as you start wondering how on Earth it can already nearly be March!—you might be on the search for something fresh to read. If so, you’re in quite the luck, Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Yorgos Lanthimos on adapting Alasdair Gray's Poor Things.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, written by Tony McNamara, and based on the 1992 novel Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer by the postmodern writer Alasdair Gray, was one of Literary Read more >

By Emily Temple

Israeli forces have burned down the library of Al-Kalima.

As reported earlier this week by Ramy Abdu, Chairman of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the Israeli army has burned down the the publishing house and library of Al-Kalima in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza. Breaking: The Israeli army destroys Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Submissions are open for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the eighth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a woman aged 30 or younger,” who Read more >

By Literary Hub

Leslie Jamison! Michiko Kakutani! The wildness of Old English! 23 new books out today.

It’s another Tuesday, and that means that a bevy of beautiful new books are out. And it’s a brilliant bevy indeed: below, you’ll find twenty-three new titles to consider that span an incredible range, including a raw new memoir from Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Becky Chambers on the new illustrations for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

The Folio Society has just released a special edition of Becky Chambers’s Hugo-Award-winning novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. New illustrations were commissioned from the artist Zoë van Dijk. Becky Chambers and Folio shared with us her Read more >

By Olivia Rutigliano

Israel has destroyed two publishing houses in the West Bank.

The Israeli army has raided and destroyed two publishing houses in the West Bank.   The IDF has attacked and destroyed two Palestinian publishing houses in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/wAlxVSGcDZ — Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) February 15, 2024 This latest Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Starting this year, the National Book Awards will be open to non-citizens.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced a change in the eligibility criteria for the annual National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Beginning with the 75th National Book Awards, submissions for which open on March 13 Read more >

By Emily Temple

Palestine's Freedom Theater has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Freedom Theater, the Palestinian community-based theater and cultural center located within the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The iconic theater company—a cultural beacon in the region which aims to generate Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

The Writing Freedom Fellowship has announced its inaugural cohort.

Last year, Haymarket Books announced a new fellowship aimed at supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the criminal legal system: The Writing Freedom Fellowship. Today, along with the Mellon Foundation, they’ve announced the inaugural cohort of fellows, twenty writers whose Read more >

By Literary Hub

A novel from Kelly Link! Billie Holiday! 23 new books out today.

Valentine’s is right around the corner, and, regardless of your feelings about such days, it’s easier to agree on one thing we can all love: new books. And, if that sounds like you, then you, Dear Reader, are in luck: Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Anna Sui's new collection is inspired by Agatha Christie, so obviously the runway was at the Strand.

It’s fashion week in New York City, which (alas) doesn’t usually concern us all that much here at Literary Hub. But last night, Anna Sui introduced her fall 2024 collection, entitled “WHODUNNIT!!!,” with a runway show at iconic bookstore The Read more >

By Emily Temple

7 great love stories for cynics.

It can be tough to be a cynic on Valentine’s Day. The color palate alone is enough to send some of us into a sugar coma. And don’t get me started on the narratives. So if you’d like to hide Read more >

By Emily Temple

Over 600 writers have signed this open letter to PEN America.

Over 600 writers and poets [3/10/2024 Update: this number now stands at over 1300]—including Roxane Gay, Alissa Nutting, Marie-Helene Bertino, Kiese Laymon, Saeed Jones, Fady Joudah, Carmen Maria Machado, Solmaz Sharif, Tommy Pico, Laura van den Berg, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah—have Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Writers are auctioning signed books to raise money for Gaza's child amputees.

Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza, now in its 125th day, has claimed the lives of over 11,500 Palestinian children and injured tens of thousands more. Save the Children has estimated that, on average, ten Gazan children are losing one or Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Is the phrase The Tortured Poets Department grammatically correct?

Hello. Lots of folks have asked me if the phrase “The Tortured Poets Department,” which is the title of Taylor Swift’s new album, is grammatically correct. Maybe! It might be grammatically correct, but that depends on how she means the Read more >

By Olivia Rutigliano