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Israel has killed over 50 members of this poet's family.

Dr. Fady Joudah—an award-winning Palestinian American writer, poet, and physician, whose essay, “A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation,” we were proud to publish last week—has lost more than fifty members of his extended family in Gaza in the past Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Kurt Vonnegut thought Bob Dylan was "the worst poet alive."

Everyone knows that Kurt Vonnegut loved music. There’s that quote, you know the one. Vonnegut liked to repeat himself, but here’s how it appears in A Man Without a Country: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our Read more >

By Emily Temple

Announcing this year's winner of the $75,000 Cundill History Prize.

Tania Branigan has won the 2023 Cundill History Prize for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution. “Haunting and memorable, Tania Branigan’s sensitive study of the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the lives and psyches of an entire Read more >

By Literary Hub

Need a book recommendation? Take the coolest, weirdest literary quiz on the internet.

It’s November, which means that n+1 is back with Bookmatch, a weird and honestly very fun personality test that will, through important questions like “what finger are you” and “where did you leave your phone,” and with the help of Read more >

By Literary Hub

Hello November, and hello to these 24 new books out today.

November has finally arrived, and, although the weather for many of us has cooled a bit, the pace of new books for you to check out hasn’t cooled at all. Below, you’ll find a delightful array of books by writers Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Rupi Kaur has declined an invitation from the White House.

Rupi Kaur—the Canadian poetry phenom whose collections have sold more than 11 million copies worldwide—has declined an invitation from the Biden White House for a a Diwali event being held by the Vice President on November 8, citing the administration’s Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

In a new Joan Didion biopic, "an AI Joan encounters a dystopia beyond her wildest anxiety dreams."

It hasn’t quite been two years since Joan Didion died, and she’s already getting the biopic treatment. A new, currently untitled film by Matthew Wilder, which “chronicles the life and work” of the woman on your tote bag, is set Read more >

By Emily Temple

Here's the winner of the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize.

Today in London, the British Academy announced the winner of the 11th British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das. “Nandini Das has written the true origin Read more >

By Literary Hub

We need more writers to speak out in support of Gaza.

Last Thursday, a group of writers, editors, and academics known as the Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG)—an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people and modeled on American Writers Against the Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Spooky good news: There are 22 new books out today.

It’s the 31st of October, that most iconically bewitching day of the month when, we are told, the borders between the worlds of the living and the dead are thinner than ever. Whatever you might make of such sepulchral possibilities, Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Check out the 25 new books out in paperback this month.

November is almost upon us, and, as the weather cools, you might find yourself wanting to reach for a new book to curl up with, perhaps even one you found yourself eying on the shelves earlier. If so, you’re in Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Join the thousands of writers who have signed this letter for Gaza.

Yesterday, a group of writers, editors, and academics known as the Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG)—an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people and modeled on American Writers Against the War Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Listen to the only recording of Shirley Jackson's voice—as she reads two of her best stories aloud.

This spooky season, why not get under the covers and let Shirley Jackson read to you? It is possible, thanks to the magic of the internet. In 1960, five years before her death, Shirley Jackson recorded readings of “The Lottery” Read more >

By Emily Temple

Dory Fantasmagory author Abby Hanlon has the real Tubtown toy.

The child who got us onto the Dory Fantasmagory books was fiercely cool and advanced at age 5: she dressed as Beetlejuice for Halloween, wore eyeliner, and once told my kid that she caught her mom putting money under her Read more >

By Janet Manley

Read the last words of writer Heba Abu Nada, who was killed last week by an Israeli airstrike.

Novelist, poet, and educator Heba Abu Nada, a beloved figure in the Palestinian literary community and the author of Oxygen is Not for the Dead, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Friday. She was thirty-two years old. In her final Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Jesmyn Ward! K-Ming Chang! Tim O'Brien! Here are 25 new books out today.

We’re nearing the end of October, and that can mean many things to many a person: that you really need to figure out what costume you’re going to wear to that party because you’ve put it off all month; that it’s Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot