Literature

I can’t believe we’re at the end of 2024, but I suppose that’s neither here nor there. It is the end of 2024, and traditionally, what we do when it’s the end of 2024 is: look back on the year of literary adaptations and think about the ones we liked the most. Over a glass

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Chris Knapp’s States of Emergency was one of my favorite novels of 2024. In subtle, intricately crafted prose, it tells the story of a young married couple moving back and forth between Paris and US trying to conceive a child in the waning years of the Obama administration, a time that, though shot through with

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Growing up in Cairo, I’d heard a verse of the Quran—verse 55 of Surat Taha—ring in every room of mourning: Article continues after advertisement From earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you once more. The same verse looped in my head throughout Mosab Abu

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This past year was as dismaying as it was disorienting (as was the year prior, as will be the year to come). As we collectively drown in a daily deluge of disinformation it is to books that we turn for something like an anchor to truth—facts still matter, and reality is still there to be

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I read a lot of queer books—that probably won’t come as a surprise to you. That means it’s inevitable that I’ll pick up some queer books I don’t like, but I usually keep that to myself. I’d rather

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1904, the first of Virginia Woolf’s writings to be accepted for publication, “Haworth, November 1904,” an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, is published anonymously in a women’s supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. Who should you ask about the best

The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 It is one of the greater strangeness of New York City that it’s libraries are more a confederation that an an integrated system, but one interesting effect is that because of this, data is collected by borough, which shows how the different parts of the

In its early days, “The Word of the Year” was drawn from the idiolect of policy makers and columnists, those who set the tone of conversation in the public sphere. With the rise of social media, “The Word of the Year” has been somewhat democratized. If dictionaries, especially the Oxford English Dictionary, privilege the written

I stayed up past my bedtime last night to finish Gus Moreno’s This Thing Between Us. Sure, I knew I would regret it in the morning when I had to wake up early to usher my child out of bed, pack her lunch, and send her off to zero period. But the story—which had started

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1968, John Steinbeck dies.   These are 50 of 2024’s best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists In case you need something to do between now and the new year, these are our

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Books New York Times Readers Loved in 2024 The NYT continues to slice and dice best-of coverage in 2024, from all-century selection all the way today to reader choices for favorite books of 2024.

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. ‘Twas the episode before Christmas and all through the studioNot a sound could be heard—not even ‘Sussudio’ To close out the year, a new holiday tradition: Jonny Diamond reads

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 It is one of the greater strangeness of New York City that it’s libraries are more a confederation that an an integrated system, but

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December 19, 2024, 1:28pm Image via The Guardian and AP Drones over New Jersey isn’t the name of a terrible new pop punk band, it’s something that’s really happening in The Kingdom of Springsteen. There isn’t a lot of concrete information or explanation about these night visitors. I would guess that this is less likely