TODAY: In 1901, the first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to French poet Sully Prudhomme.
- In which we take a break from contentious book lists to bring you a contentious television list: here are the best literary TV adaptations of the decade! | Lit Hub Best of the Decade
- Tight breeches and uplifted bosoms: Going deep on the fashion of Jane Austen. | Lit Hub History
- How Berlin reckons with its Cold War history, each and every day: Paul Scraton follows the old path of one of history’s most infamous walls. | Lit Hub History
- Siri Hustvedt on Philip Goff’s Galileo’s Error: Foundations of a New Science of Consciousness, and panpsychism’s shifting foundations. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The weed business remains out of reach for black and brown experts who’ve risked the most to learn their craft.” Lauren Michele Jackson on race, weed, and the gray areas of the legal system. | Lit Hub Politics
- Gabrielle Hickmon on Audre Lorde’s Berlin years and Showing Our Colours, “the first book published in Germany that treated Afro-Germans as a national identity.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Gary Phillips is on the hunt for Roosevelt Mallory, Black pulp’s forgotten author, who revolutionized 1970s pulp fiction only to disappear. | CrimeReads
- Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, Jericho Brown’s The Tradition, and Tina Chang’s Hybrida all feature among the Best Reviewed Poetry Collections of 2019. | Book Marks
- “It isn’t an intellectual process, and it’s not prescient—it’s about what I can bring myself to believe.” Read a profile of SF legend William Gibson. | The New Yorker
- Lesley McDowell, one of five judges for the Saltire Scottish fiction book of the year, resigned in protest after Ewan Morrison’s novel Nina X was awarded the prize, claiming gender bias slanted the decision. | The Guardian
- How the modern-day Hawaiian-immersion movement helped save the language from extinction. | The Atlantic
- Has the success of Elena Ferrante’s novels and new translations of work by 20th-century Italian female authors marked a new era for women in the Italian publishing world? | The New York Times
- The prospect of a no-deal Brexit is frightening many indie publishers in the UK. | The Boar
- “His work was too deftly sewn into the English language to be picked free of it.” Brian Evenson on Gary Lutz’s “untranslatable” fiction. | The Paris Review
- Imaginary gift guides with real books in them: these are the most expensive books ever sold. | Book Riot
Also on Lit Hub: De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, and more take the Lit Hub Questionnaire • How to spend a literary long weekend in Chicago • “Redshift,” a story by Kathy Chao, excerpted from The Gettysburg Review.
