Literature

Esquire is hopping into the Best Of book list pool with Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly with their list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 (So Far), though the “so far” parts confuses us a bit since there are only two months left to the year. Still, we appreciate the openness to the

The following is from Jessie van Eerden’s Call it Horses. van Eerden is author of three novels: Glorybound, My Radio Radio, and Call It Horses. Her portrait essay collection The Long Weeping won the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, and her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, Oxford American, New England

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fairly quiet on the books news front today (and I would expect it to be this way for awhile for reasons you can probably guess and are feeling yourself. Nervous), so I am clear out

Conclave, Edward Berger’s taut new papal thriller, is excellent. And before I continue with this review, I want to dwell on and draw your attention to the descriptor “papal thriller.” Because that’s what this movie is, and that earned points from me before the movie even began. Maybe it’s because I attended Catholic school in

John Green, the bestselling author of books like The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, both of which have been adapted, is releasing a nonfiction book about Tuberculosis titled Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. The book will be published in spring 2024 by Crash Course Books, a

The following is from Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Debroah. Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956, and settled in France in 1992. Gallimard published her autobiographical account of the Rwandan genocide, Inyenzi ou les Cafards (Cockroaches), which marked her entry into literature. In 2019, her book The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the 2019 National

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October 28, 2024, 9:00am On October 26th, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the winners of the 25th National Translation Awards. The NTAs are awarded, in both poetry and prose, to “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate

Wake up, babe — a new Best Books of the Year just dropped. Somehow, we’re already on to the second list like this before Halloween (B&N had the first). Listen, we’re not complaining! But also, we hope this trend doesn’t encroach into earlier in the year. Just saying. As for the list itself, there are

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I was too young to see Showgirls when it was released to theaters in 1995, but I was old enough to notice the media narrative surrounding the newest “worst film of all time.” Paul Verhoeven’s NC-17 erotic melodrama was panned, mocked, reviled. Rita Kempley claimed in The Washington Post that the filmmakers were “little better

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TODAY: In 1922, Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf is published.  “I looked for my novel on the screen. I found the skeleton of it intact. Its revolutionary content was missing.” Sol Yurick, author of The Warriors, remembers searching for a trace of his book on the big screen. | Lit Hub Film Nguyễn Bình on

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Barnes & Noble has released its Best Books of the Year 2024 lists, which I think we can all agree is a little early in the year for that. Regardless, it’s an interesting look at the biggest and

October 25, 2024, 1:51pm Something’s happening with sex and work this season, culturally-speaking. On screen, Sean Baker’s Anora, a loving profile of an escort on the come-up, is gathering Oscar buzz. On the page, Sally Rooney’s latest, Intermezzo, features a character balancing an IRL love affair with a steady stream of photo-sharing employment. And in

Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Author Buy/Sell/Hold: 2024 Edition Jeff and Rebecca head down to the literary trading floor and evaluate their portfolio to determine which authors