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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Have We Reached Peak Celebrity Audiobook Narration? I was browsing the finalists for the Audies and was struck

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1891, Caresse Crosby, co-founder of the Black Sun Press and “literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris,” is born.  Deborah Williams on Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, Miranda July, and “women of a certain age.” | Lit Hub Criticism

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced Often the NBCC can have the most idiosyncratic finalists of

January 23, 2025, 1:50pm Perhaps predictably, the men-aren’t-reading discourse has made the jump into 2025. The perennial conversation has taken on new weight this year, though, as we begin to be governed by the worst of men, the putrid avatars of a hatefully reactionary masculinity. Increasingly, what’s wrong with men is what’s wrong with America.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Every January, readers who love books for children, tweens, and teens get excited about the annual awards and “best of” lists created by librarians. Among the most well known are the Caldecott Award, honoring the best in illustration;

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1883, Gustave Doré, the illustrator whose engravings provided the defining illustrations for many works of literature, dies in Paris.  On finding the plot to your novel (after you’ve already lost it): “As the character in this story, I’ve evolved at least to this extent: it’s

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In his new book Aflame: Learning from Silence, Pico Iyer reflects on the more than 100 retreats he has made to a Benedictine monastery in the hills above Big Sur, California. Over the last 30+ years, Iyer, who

Today, the National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the titles selected for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program, which is made possible by a three-year $525,000 renewal grant from the Sloan Foundation. Each year since its inception, the program has honored three books—one fiction, one nonfiction,

Private Rites by Julia Armfield Somehow, I managed to get an MA in English without ever actually reading King Lear. So, right before the holiday break, I found myself sitting with my Riverside Shakespeare textbook open on my lap while I watched Anthony Hopkins perform as King Lear on my television screen. After my crash

January 21, 2025, 2:10pm “Is it or is it not fascism” is a debate we’re going to be having a lot in the next few years, I’m afraid. And while there is perhaps an intellectual rigor to sussing out an answer, there are also things that are what they appear to be. Yesterday was a

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Josh Cook, who I interviewed last year on First Edition about somewhat similar matters, kicks off a series

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In recent years, there has been a concentrated ramp-up on adapting books into films and TV shows, with headline news for rights sold and casting selections having become a regular part of the news cycle. It feels as

“Only the sunlight holds things together. Noon is the crucial hour: the desert reveals itself nakedly and cruelly, with no meaning but its own existence.”–Edward Abbey* Article continues after advertisement Ofelia Zepeda occupied an old, high-ceilinged office on the ground level of a century-old brick building at the University of Arizona. She wore a necklace

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Football Player’s In-Game Reading Sends Book to Top of the Charts Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver flipped open a

Monday, January 20 is sure to be a day of pomp and circumstance that brings Americans of all political leanings together in celebration of the nation’s most cherished of institutions. We are talking, of course, about the college football national championship game in Atlanta between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Article continues after advertisement There

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely

I started writing about my wild girl, Atalanta—and about Bernadette, the scholar tasked with discovering and revealing Atalanta’s story in order to preserve the girl’s freedom—during the long months of the COVID-19 lockdown, when I was isolated with my own young son and daughter. Sometimes fiction comes so directly from life that all the usual

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Catch up on the most popular stories from this week’s editions of Today in Books. Details Emerge in Sexual Assault Allegations Against Neil Gaiman 100 Books to Look For in 2025 It’s always a good day when the