“The reality on the ground is infinitely worse than the worst videos and photos that we’re seeing in the west.” Susan Abulhawa—the Palestinian-American writer and human rights activist whose debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, became an international bestseller in 2010—has Read more >
Spring is here! That can mean many things to many people, but, in general, it can be a time of rebirth and renewal, a slow shift from the paradigms of winter. And if there are new blossoms to look forwards Read more >
Over 500 members of the KidLit community—including Sabaa Tahir, Angie Thomas, and Jason Reynolds—have signed an open letter to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, calling for the organization to break its silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which Read more >
In news both thrilling and topical, it turns out that the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson and the twenty-first-century American bard Taylor Swift are related. Since Taylor is about to release an album called The Tortured Poets Department, Read more >
There’s a new online bookstore in town—and this time it’s helmed by RuPaul. Yes, that RuPaul. (Reading being, after all, fundamental.) Allstora, announced today*, is a membership-based bookstore that offers a profit-split to authors. RuPaul serves as Allstora’s Chief Creative Read more >
Astonishing as it may seem, March—and, with it, the spring of 2024—is already here. March, like much of 2024, will almost certainly be a month of major events, given the extraordinary confluence of conflicts and political jockeying we’ve already had Read more >
Get out your bucket hats: Sally Rooney has a new novel! Intermezzo will be arriving September 24 from FSG (and Knopf in Canada, and Faber in the UK). You are likely familiar with Rooney’s work, but just in case you Read more >
A Mask, the Color of the Sky , the latest novel by imprisoned Palestinian author Basim Khandaqji, has been named among the six finalists for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. A Mask, the Color of the Sky revolves around the Read more >
On February 24th, iconic Parisian department store Le Bon Marché unveiled a new project curated by Sarah Andelman, co-founder of the (almost) equally iconic concept store Colette. “Mise en Page,” which Andelman created with French artist Jean Jullien, who is Read more >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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