Literature

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. Publishers See a Bright Future in the Cards Every time I peruse publisher catalogs, I’m struck by the

In the 1990s, when I was a student at the newly formed Asian Pacific American Studies Department at NYU, the artist in residence at the time, David Henry Hwang, visited my class and spoke about Bruce Lee and the film The Joy Luck Club. He said something that I will never forget: “One generation’s breakthrough

The bestseller lists are not playing nice together this week: there is not one book that all of them agree is a top ten bestseller. While most of these books will be familiar titles, we have a few new titles this week: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon, and Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks. Among

Angie Debo, working in the 1930s, was a laconic, studious woman with a small-town Oklahoma background and impeccable academic credentials (she earned an MA from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Oklahoma). She compiled a manuscript documenting how millions of acres allotted to tribal citizens quickly wound up as vast

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Author Rachel Yoder and director Marielle Heller sit down to talk about Nightbitch, Heller’s new film based on Yoder’s novel of the same name. The film opens the third Refocus Film Festival on October 17 in Iowa City. The festival is an appreciation of the art of adaptation, particularly interested in the relationship of page to screen. Here

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1962, Sylvia Plath writes one of her best-known poems, “Daddy,” partly inspired by her own relationship with her father Otto, who was an expert on bees and who died when Sylvia was just eight years old. A guide to Cormac McCarthy’s literary influences, from Beowulf to

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last week, I recommended some queer gothic novels and said I’d make a list of sapphic vampire books to prevent them from entirely taking over that post. It’s true, I love a sapphic vampire story. (I mean, I’ve

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt dies. He was one of the first English language poets to use the sonnet as a form. “I think it’s interesting that there’s such an overt transformation at the center of the book, but then it’s really about these subtle transformations

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October 11, 2024, 11:12am We’re well into Halloween’s favorite month — October — when costumed kids, Hot Topic teens, and arts-and-crafts-obsessed adults all join together to celebrate the season of spookiness. If you’ve been feeling a little left out, we’ve got your back. I put together a little Literary Terrors Bingo filled with book-world horrors,

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October 10, 2024, 10:00am Today, the American Literary Translators Association announced its shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards, which celebrate “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality.” Prizes will be awarded in both poetry and prose. “Our

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. South Korean Novelist Han Kang Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang’s Nobel Prize is unusual in

October 10, 2024, 2:45pm Today, at an event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Peter Hoskin announced the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, which recognizes the best books in the category published in English in the UK over the past year. “The six shortlisted books showcase a breathtaking range of subjects and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about trans history from Roman emperor Elagabalus to the Stonewall uprising with the upcoming Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett. This graphic nonfiction

October 9, 2024, 11:53am The bookish sister, under-regarded in every film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is finally getting a new lease on life. A new BBC adaptation will pay special attention to Mary’s journey. As The AV Club reported, “To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the beloved miniseries, the network has commissioned a new