Omar El Akkad

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

 
By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 11, 2025
The Lit Hub Podcast

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Talking Oscars and… Macbeths are #relationshipgoals?

By The Lit Hub Podcast   February 28, 2025
Gaza

Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West

By Dan Sheehan  February 25, 2025
New Books Tuesdays

Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  February 25, 2025
Climate Fiction

On the False Promise of Climate Fiction 

By Emma Pattee  November 14, 2023
Fiction/Non/Fiction

John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

By Fiction Non Fiction  October 19, 2023
Water

Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

By Omar El Akkad  June 16, 2023
The Hub

20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.

By Katie Yee  June 1, 2022
Climate Change

What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis

By Literary Hub  April 22, 2022
The Hub

Omar El Akkad has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

By Snigdha Koirala  November 9, 2021
new books tuesday

10 new books you’ll want to read right now.

By Katie Yee  July 20, 2021
Novels

What Strange Paradise

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 20, 2021
Storybound

Omar El Akkad Reads From American War and What Strange Paradise

By Storybound   July 6, 2021
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  July 2, 2021
Storybound

Announcing Season 4 of the Storybound Podcast

By Storybound   June 4, 2021
Summer reading

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

By Literary Hub  May 25, 2021
Climate Crisis

Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

By Amy Brady  March 25, 2021
Climate Crisis

How Contemporary Novelists Are Confronting Climate Collapse in Fiction

By Amy Brady  March 24, 2021
Covering Climate Now

Faster Than We Thought: What Stories Will Survive Climate Change?

By Omar El Akkad  September 16, 2019
Climate Change

Emily Raboteau and Omar El Akkad Tell a Different Kind of Climate Change Story

By Fiction Non Fiction  April 18, 2019
News and Culture

17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change

By Amy Brady  April 15, 2019
New in Nonfiction

The Vulnerability of Home on an Afflicted Planet, From California to Calcutta

By Torsa Ghosal  March 6, 2019
End of Year Lists

The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

By Emily Temple  December 18, 2017
What to Read

5 Books Making News This Week: Dystopias, Detectives, and Tricky Dick

By Jane Ciabattari  April 4, 2017
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