Literature

Writer Ruben Reyes Jr. joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation. Reyes explains how deportation could affect families or households with different immigration statuses, including those here through Deferred Action Childhood Arrival (commonly known as DACA) and with Temporary Protected Status. The three discuss Trump’s plans
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL
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November 20, 2024, 2:29pm Yesterday in Toronto, the Writers’ Trust of Canada recognized the country’s best books and authors with the distribution of seven annually-given prizes. For his second novel, Batshit Seven, the novelist Sheung-King received the highly coveted Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction prize. The $60,000 award recognizes the year’s best novel or story
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November 19, 2024, 5:15pm Out of an impressive shortlist, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has won 2024’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Flanagan’s wide-ranging memoir and history weaves together H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, pre-war nuclear physics, his father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the American atom bomb falls, and Flanagan’s own life-or-death experience on a
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The Giller Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Canada, and it has the largest cash prize: $100,000 for the winner and $10,000 for shortlisted authors. It recognizes outstanding fiction by a Canadian author published
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November 19, 2024, 1:15pm The gala for the Giller Prize—formally Canada’s most prestigious literary award, now synonymous with artwashing genocide and apartheid—took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel last night. Anne Michaels received the 2024 prize for her novel Held. Michaels is a poet and author who has previously won the Orange Prize for Fiction,
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November 18, 2024, 2:57pm As a lapsed poet with a pessimistic view of humanity, I was disheartened but not remotely surprised to read The Guardian’s report on a study finding that “non-expert poetry readers” preferred poetry written by AI to poetry written by humans. In my experience, “non-expert poetry readers” often view poetry as a
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He’s sitting by one of the white tables on the lawn, talking to his business partner. They laugh at something, but stop when everyone’s asked to quiet down. The lighting dims and he watches the movie projected on the screen by the stage. Up until that moment, he has no idea that there’s such a
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1869, English poet Charlotte Mary Mew is born.  Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America.  | Lit Hub Memoir “Goodness is neither wisdom nor wealth; ironically, like evil, in its purest form good is not instrumental, utilitarian, or
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. A couple weeks ago, I shared The Best Queer Books of 2024, According to Publishers Weekly: I looked through their overall Best Books of 2024 list and pulled out all the queer books I spotted to share with
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