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How early aughts “women’s fiction” helped Sarah Vacchiano survive divorce. | Lit Hub Craft Geneen Roth explores the torture of diet culture and power of l…
National Library Week is a moment to pause and reflect on what libraries truly are and what they make possible. They are, of course, places of books. But they…
Today, an organized group of artists and writers announced the launch of 92NO, a collective protest directed at the New York cultural institution 92NY (formall…
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub…
Earlier today, the Manhattan DA’s office announced that it will formally return 17 stolen books to their rightful owners: the Whitneys. And yes, I do mea…
Rosa Campbell on how men responded to The Hite Report (and why we’re wrong about men and feminism). | Lit Hub Politics “For farmers, it costs real dollars…
For the past hundred years, the coveted Guggenheim fellowship has granted funds “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of kno…
A blast of light. Blindness. Heat on my face. I fall back. A thousand holy golden female voices hailing, lifting up, un-questioning, bright, pushed with a joyf…
On physics, poetry, and how humans “are producing our reality through the stories we choose to tell and the metaphors that we use to narrate them. ” | Lit…
We’re ten days into the 30th National Poetry Month— perhaps you’ve seen our poem-of-the-day feature— and it’s gotten me into a lyrical mood.…
Our favorite criticism of the week includes Sadie Stein on Agnieszka Szpila’s Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, Erin Somers on Jay McInerney’s See You…
For months, Wesley Wade and his wife, Giovonni Wade, ended their days the same way, asking themselves, “How is this so hard?” The task consuming their evenings…
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a…
You’ve heard of Bad Art Friend, but are you ready for…Good Art Friend? | Lit Hub In Conversation “A writer must look inward to determine how their o…
It’s April on the east coast, and we’re starting to get glimpses of beauty amid the chilled damp. Everyone knows Eliot’s description of April…
“Lately, I’ve found myself pining for the old WASP elite. ” In which Robert Leleux reads too many biographies of rich, white Americans. | Lit Hub Biograph…
The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive&…
Stephanie Gorton talks to William Kennedy, legendary author of Ironweed, about turning a bedtime story for his four-year-old into Charlie Malarkey and the Bell…
Langston Hughes, translator? Ricardo Wilson II explores the writer’s experience in Mexico and his struggle to bring Mexican and Cuban writers to American audie…
Tonight the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of its book awards for publishing year 2025. As NBCC President Adam Dalva declared in his ope…
M. Gessen, the prolific author with bylines in The New York Times and The New Yorker, has launched a new podcast in partnership with Serial Productions and the…
Stephen Colbert, the recently defenestrated late night host, is co-writing a new Lord of the Rings movie. A long time Tolkien fan— real ones will remember his…
If you’ve talked to me in the last couple of weeks, you’ve no doubt heard me gush about Satyajit Ray’s exquisite Days and Nights in the Forest, a funny and tou…
The six book shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction has been announced, an impressive collection that includes memoir, contemporary politics,…
As the Hong Kong Free Press reported this morning, four booksellers in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of selling “seditious titles. ” Th…
I can’t speak for your algorithm, but mine is a sea of tortoise-shell headbands and musings on the return of minimalism. This is care of Love Story, the…
“People often believe that we can understand things simply by categorizing them, and that bothers me. ” Leanne Ogasawara in conversation with Mieko Kawakami an…
Eid Mubarak! The spring weather is finally sticking around and starting to crack all our shells here in NYC, and it’s a tide lifting all boats. It’…
For the past ten years, the Brooklyn Public Library has played host to a highly niche adult sleepover: the Night in the Library. The annual festival amounts to…
Well, “great-great grandson, ” to be technical about it. Jonah Freud, heir to the founder of psychoanalysis, is taking London by storm. The entrepr…
A cargo ship carrying the full print runs of two forthcoming comics from Fantagraphics Books was hit by an Iranian missile in the Straight of Hormuz, according…
Earlier this month, The Cut launched a new vertical, “Oh Baby, ” with an eye toward aggravating one demographic: the ambivalent prospective parent. Over…
Considering the genius of Frances Burney, Jane Austen’s most important literary predecessor. | Lit Hub Criticism On channeling grief into other worlds and…
Thirteen essential books by trans and queer writers, reviewed by trans and queer writers, that the New York Times Book Review neglected to cover between 2013 a…
It’s been a week of welcome change, in terms of temps and altitudes. We at Lit Hub are seeing familiar climes from fresh angles. Jonny Diamond is gratefu…
Daniel Kraus on horror, improvisation, and lessons learned from Night of the Living Dead. | Lit Hub Film Why Perfect Tides: Station to Station might just…
In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish— queen of melancholy pop— is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah…
The Key launched with an essay by the new magazine’s editor in chief Sara Yasin called “It’s Not Complicated. ” The essay is part reflection, part media…
Today, Aspen Words announced the shortlist for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35, 000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminate…
Devoney Looser explores 19th-century attitudes about menstruation through Jane Austen’s Period Drama, the Oscar-nominated short. | Lit Hub Film Logan Sche…
In A+ prank news, roughly 10, 000 authors signed their names to a new anthology to protest AI theft of human creativity. The twist? The book, called Don’…
Amazon has pulled out of sponsoring the Paris Book Fair, thanks to pressure from a booksellers’ association: Syndicat de la Librairie Française (SLF). The SLF,…
If you’re done with the “men don’t read” discourse, try reading about Kristopher Jansma’s all-male book club instead. | Lit Hub Craft On Ezra Pound, Muss…
It’s the AWP Conference and Bookfair this week, and most of the Lit Hub staff has been in Baltimore. With the editors out of town, those of us not at AWP have…
Dirt, which has fast become one of our favorite sites for off-the-beaten-path media takes, is launching an imprint. Please give a warm welcome to Dirt Books. T…
How a bill targeting trans literature could ban all LGBTQ+ books from American public schools (and why you should care). | Lit Hub Politics “What is it ab…
As Publishers Weekly reported yesterday, there’s a little bit to celebrate this week in Bookland. Industry analyst and Circana BookScan employee Brenna C…
From Red Emma’s to Edgar Allan Poe, here’s your literary guide to Baltimore for AWP! | Lit Hub Hilton Als considers the influence of class and queerness o…
Like Myra in her story “A Memory, ” Mary Lavin lived in a mews house behind Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin. She also had a house on a bend of the river Boyne in…
A group of right-wing Congressional Representatives introduced a federal book banning bill in Congress this week that would give book censors wide latitude to…
I was maybe nine years old the first time I saw a deck of tarot cards. One of my babysitters brought them to our house. She waited until my parents left before…
A challenge to a monstrously regressive Florida state law that makes it easier for books to be pulled from school libraries is making its way through a federal…
“Imagine a wealthy Oxbridge don giving their teenager a blank check for their Brontë birthday bash and you might begin to grasp the vision. ” Emily Van Duyne r…
Independent publishing great Tyrant Books— which has been dormant since its founder Giancarlo DiTrapano’s death in 2021— is coming back. As Publisher’s M…
image © India Hobson for Booker Prize Foundation Today, the Booker Foundation announced the 2026 longlist for the International Booker Prize, which recognizes…
“A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind. ” — Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art o…
For fiction authors of a certain stripe, a 2023 New York Times profile of the author Lauren Groff landed like an apple on the head. For others, it spilled like…
If you want a pair of shoes made, you don’t begin by studying the leather. You look first at the shoes the shoemaker is wearing. We measure character by exampl…
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