Literature

April 26, 2024, 3:14pm Following months of escalating protests over its response to Israel’s war on Gaza, and just four days on from the cancelation of its annual literary awards, embattled free expression organization PEN America has now also announced the cancelation of its World Voices Festival. According to a press release published on the

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1564, playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.   “I yearned for a bigger life and was sure it would come for me.” Aaron Hicklin on how the novels of Lynne Reid Banks helped him see himself. | Lit Hub Memoir “The more pertinent question

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

April 25, 2024, 1:22pm That’s according to a recently released survey by the Society of Authors, which heard from over 800 of their members about how they’re feeling about emergent technologies and their impact on their creative work. The Society, a UK-based trade organization that has been advising and campaigning for writers, illustrators, and literary

Goodreads editors have crunched some more numbers to give us a list of 51 of the most popular nonfiction books of 2024 (so far). To do so, they looked at which titles their members had saved under the Read or Want to Read sections on the site, which boasts more than 150 million members. They’ve

Our treasure trove of terrific reviews this week includes Ariel Dorfman on Gabriel García Márquez’s Until August, Casey Cep on Russell Banks’ American Spirits, Joshua Ferris on Justin Taylor’s Reboot, Mia Levitin on Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test, and the late Helen Vendler on Herman Melville: Complete Poems. Brought to you by Book Marks,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last year, I became a first-time parent to identical twin girls. As my nurse/midwife will tell you, I’m someone who needs all of the information and data. But because I was living with the very real possibility that

April 24, 2024, 3:32pm Today on Xwitter, Ukraine offered up their own version of The Tortured Poets Department, honoring three Ukrainian writers who have died in the 790 days so far of the country’s war with Russia: Victoria Amelina, Maksym Kryvtsov, and Volodymyr Vakulenko. Amelina, a celebrated novelist and winner of a UNESCO City of

Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland This romantasy is delightfully full of plant witch magic and follows the cursed women of the Flores family. It’s this curse that gives them a sprinkling of magic, magic that Sage Flores has been trying to avoid ever since her sister Sky died eight years ago. Now,

April 24, 2024, 8:00am The Women’s Prize Trust, which “creates equitable opportunities for women in the world of books,” has announced the shortlist for its fiction prize, which spotlights English-language novels written by women. This year, the shortlists highlighted six novels that “both focus on intimate family relationships, as well as those that convey a

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Jaime Herndon finished her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, after leaving a life of psychosocial oncology and maternal-child health work. She is a writer, editor, and book reviewer who drinks way too much coffee. She is a

April 23, 2024, 2:18pm I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial. Free Palestine. –China Miéville   In a fiery open letter published earlier today, the award-winning British speculative fiction

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 WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

The following is from Ruth Reichl’s The Paris Novel. Reichl is the New York Times bestselling author of five memoirs, the novel Delicious!, and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as well as food editor and restaurant

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk (Sapphic Gothic Novel) This literary, feminist, sapphic vampire novel has been getting rave reviews, including in The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and a starred Booklist review. Also, I can say that this is one the reviewers at my sapphic book blog, the Lesbrary, were

April 22, 2024, 5:24pm Image from Air Mail’s Instagram The foibles and flailings of the very rich, the very powerful, and the very New York were once the targets of Spy, the pioneering magazine started by Kurt Anderson and Graydon Carter. Spy once sent 13-cent checks to rich New Yorkers and reported on who cashed

Not all book recommendation sources are equal. Years ago, I saw a tweet from a popular YA author asking his followers for their favorite little-known books. The responses were filled with books like The Hunger Games and Catcher in the Rye: some of the most read and recognized books of all time. I was so