This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
André Alexis has won the 2025 Story Prize, an annual award for short fiction, for his collection Other Worlds (FSG Originals). Other Worlds was selected from the Story Prize shortlist (which also included Lydia Millet’s Atavists and Ayşegül Savaş’s Long Read more >
As if to prove his point, the Nobel-winning mage who wrote “the times, they are a-changing,” has finally joined Patreon. As Pitchfork reported yesterday, Bob Dylan—aka Zimmy, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury—has made a new personal account on the pay-to-play hosting Read more >
The shortlist for the International Booker Prize is out today, and it includes many books published by women and independent presses, two debuts, and writers from eight nationalities and four continents. The International Booker celebrates fiction and collections that have Read more >
We’re at the bitter end of March, and here to usher in the closing of the dreary winter, and welcome in the tidings of April, there are more than a few big books arriving on this new books Tuesday. Let’s Read more >
April approaches, and with it comes a bevy of new books to look out for, balms in a year of astonishing chaos and uncertainty, and so I’m delighted to share some novels, memoirs, essay collections, explorations, and more to spend Read more >
Inspired by something Drew said on The Lit Hub podcast, I’ve been rethinking how I’m organizing the books I want to read, and trying to cull a little by being a little more honest about what I’m actually going to Read more >
Tonight the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of its book awards for publishing year 2025. As NBCC President Adam Dalva declared in his opening remarks, this year’s NBCC Awards are marked by a moment when “the very concept Read more >
M. Gessen, the prolific author with bylines in The New York Times and The New Yorker, has launched a new podcast in partnership with Serial Productions and the Times. “The Idiot” follows Gessen’s cousin Allen, a sketchy business man. “If Read more >
Stephen Colbert, the recently defenestrated late night host, is co-writing a new Lord of the Rings movie. A long time Tolkien fan—real ones will remember his cameo in 2013’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug—Mr. Colbert will be pulling a Read more >
NYC bodegas are special places. You can grab all manner of essentials and snacks, order your most idiosyncratic breakfast sandwich, pet a cat, and catch up with a guy who only knows you as “boss” but has seen you at Read more >
If you’ve talked to me in the last couple of weeks, you’ve no doubt heard me gush about Satyajit Ray’s exquisite Days and Nights in the Forest, a funny and touching Bengali language Indian film that I’ve now seen twice Read more >
The six book shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction has been announced, an impressive collection that includes memoir, contemporary politics, biography, writing on health and science, and more. The prize aims to elevate women’s underrepresented voices in non-fiction, Read more >
As the Hong Kong Free Press reported this morning, four booksellers in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of selling “seditious titles.” The store in question is Book Punch, a Sham Shui Po bookstore owned and operated by Pong Read more >
This year, the United Kingdom has made books a special cause. The National Year of Reading is a twelve month, government-sponsored campaign to get the citizenry hyped about reading for pleasure. And as our stateside feds scheme to restrict library Read more >
Sure, your parents warned you not to do something only because your friends want you to, but sometimes maybe you should. This week, I’m thankful that Don DeLillo has finally relented to peer pressure and let his 1980 book Amazons, Read more >
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