Earlier this month, at 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center, actor Ben Whishaw performed a selection of work from The Translations of Seamus Heaney, edited by Marco Sonzogni, introducing the readings in a script written by Colm Tóibín. The evening included this riveting Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
Here’s a great way to expand your international reading: with Hay Festival’s Eurovision Book Contest! Voted for by the public (suggestions were limited to anything published in the years since the song contest began in 1956), these are your 37 Read more >
It’s a new Tuesday, and that means, as ever, that a lot of new books are out. As the days (generally) get a bit warmer and more conducive to that special pleasure of reading outside (or in the cool indoors), Read more >
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2022.” Here are Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
It’s this little American’s first time watching the Eurovision Song Contest (streaming on Peacock), an activity I never thought would overlap with Lit Hub dot com… until Austria performed at last night’s semi-finals with their (already TikTok famous) song “Who Read more >
Move over, Dame Hellen Mirren, there’s a new Patricia Highsmith in town. Shailene Woodley, star of Big Little Lies and [checks Wikipedia] a lot of films I’ve never heard of (sorry, I am old and there are so many YA Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
A couple months off winning the Republic of Consciousness Prize, Arinze Ifeakandu was announced as the winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize at an event tonight in London for his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Read more >
Shooting is set to begin on Pedro Páramo, a Spanish-language movie adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s seminal 1958 novella about a man who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will he will travel to Comala to meet his wayward Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kaveh Akbar’s forthcoming novel Martyr!, pitched as “a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
Writer Jonathan Eig, whose new biography of Martin Luther King Jr, King: A Life, comes out next week, has discovered that King’s harshest rebuke of Malcolm X was conjured out of thin air. The famous criticism, which appeared in a Read more >
The most thankless characters in literary history are mothers. They’re always birthing important characters and assuming the shape of overplayed metaphors and even, sometimes, marrying the fratricidal brother of their dead spouse, yet somehow they’re secondary characters when it comes Read more >
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