Do you enjoy gambling—but, you know, in a cultured way? None of that racetrack nonsense or three card monte for you? Well you’re in luck: the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next Thursday, October 6, and the Read more >
Why the hell has Pennsylvania’s Central York School District banned four books in the Girls Who Code series, which provides models to young women and girls who might not otherwise see themselves as computer programmers? Yes, the nationwide Republican movement Read more >
By the time I read Hilary Mantel’s 1996 review of Kate Atkinson’s debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum in the London Review of Books, the novel had been a favorite of mine for over a decade. My mother Read more >
Celebrated British writer Hilary Mantel, best known for her Thomas Cromwell trilogy—Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light—for which she won not one but two Booker Prizes, died from a stroke on Thursday at the age Read more >
Welcome to Life Advice for Book Lovers, Lit Hub’s advice column. You tell me what’s eating you in an email to deardorothea@lithub.com, and I’ll tell you what you should read next. * Hello Dorothea, I am avid reader of Lit Read more >
In a surprising turn of events, Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing a loophole revealed by a TikTok about “reading hacks.” The hack: reading an entire ebook and then returning Read more >
Today, the jurors for the 2022 Cundill History Prize announced their eight-book shortlist, a collection of books that “shows the range and insight of current history writing.” The winner will be awarded $75,000, and two runners up will receive $10,000 Read more >
POLITICO reports today that it has obtained a draft copy of new resolutions, authored by congressional Democrats, that would address book bans and aims to “protect the rights of students to learn.” Juan Perez Jr. writes: The draft House measure Read more >
The Poetry Foundation today announced its Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, recognizing “outstanding young poets” who will each receive $25,800. The fellows are: Tarik Dobbs, author of the chapbook Dancing on the Tarmac and the forthcoming NAZAR Read more >
Today, the judges for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction announced their 2022 longlist: 12 books that represent the best in nonfiction writing published in the UK in the last year. “It was a fiendishly difficult, but also highly enjoyable Read more >
How far have you gone to roast a friend? How about writing a passive-aggressive story that portrays them as a scrappy boxer who thinks they’re stronger than they are and gets beaten up for it? Welcome to literary payback, Hemingway-style: Read more >
We here at Literary Hub dot com are huge Taylor Swift fans. We are awaiting her new album with bated breath. We are listening to all the old stuff (Taylor’s version) in anticipation. We will find literally any excuse to write Read more >
You do? Well, good for you, I guess. The “book” in question is a 21,450-page single volume edition of the long-running manga One Piece by Japanese manga artist Eiichiro Oda, smushed together so as to make it impossible to read. As Read more >
If you’re on the literary Internet, you probably know that it’s Banned Books Week. You’ve probably also seen so many school and local library book challenges that you’ve lost count. According to PEN America’s latest report, there have been more Read more >
I recently reread Donna Tartt’s Dark Academia classic The Secret History—published 30 years ago this month—for the first time since I was a young identity-less Classics student myself. On the whole, I found the book as enjoyable as I remember Read more >
On September 20th, 1939, Jean-Paul Sartre was conscripted into the French Army. Because of his exotropia, which he said caused him balance issues, and his partial blindness, he didn’t go to the front. Instead, they made him a meteorologist. It Read more >
It’s a doozy! This week brings us new books by Yiyun Li, Elizabeth Strout, Andrew Sean Greer, Chelsea Martin, and more. * Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose (FSG) “The most propulsively entertaining of Li’s novels, The Book of Goose is Read more >
PEN America has released a new report on book bans in schools during the 2021-22 school year showing a marked increase in efforts to limit what students are reading—and a troubling, coordinated campaign of groups pushing those efforts. From July Read more >
Dear Reader, Every so often, life has a funny way of putting the right book into our hands at the right time. You’ll read a passage, and you’ll feel like it was written for you, specifically. You’ll look around the Read more >
Sure, Woody Allen may be a celebrity octogenarian with millions of dollars and a decimated reputation, but he’s also just like you: keeping up with pandemic trends by quitting his job to follow his real passion! On Sunday, Woody Allen, Read more >
