Literature

After an eventful summer, we are super looking forward to the official start of biggest season in publishing. Goodreads is holding us down with their roundups of some of the best horror (which we reviewed here), science fiction, and fantasy books to look forward to with the new season. And there are a lot of

[To rise, she rises, I rise, we rise, an uprising] لا يقيم العزيز في البلد السهل      ولا ينفع الذليل النجاء The noble never reside in easy lands, and flight will not avail the lowly  This is a line of poetry by the Arab poet al-Harith ibn Hilliza, composed more than 1400 years ago. This is

As part of hosting the Book Riot Podcast, co-writing Today in Books, while also keeping my own reading train running, I collect interesting book lists. Some I get around to linking to, some I don’t. So here on the precipice of Fall, I offer 42 book lists I’ve collected over the last couple of months.

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1814, Sheridan Le Fanu is born.  Hannah Silva examines the (not so) shocking similarities between quantum physics and queer dating. | Lit Hub Memoir  August brought some great book covers, and a lot of them were slippery. | Lit Hub Design “I had been writing

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Anti-Racism Author Accused of Plagiarizing Minority Academics Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility flew to the top of bestseller lists in mid-2020 during the height of Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

August 28, 2024, 9:50am The Kirkus Prize, one of the richest annual literary awards in the world, has announced its list of finalists for 2024. The award is given to three titles that received a starred review from Kirkus on publication. A panel of bright book people and Kirkus editors select the finalist pool, and

Netflix has released the trailer for August Wilson’s 1990 play, The Piano Lesson, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The trailer, and the movie itself, has a lot going on, in the best way. It stars Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Avengers), John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman, Tenet), Ray Fisher (Zack Snyder’s Justice League,

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1899, Swedish writer and journalist Wendela Hebbe dies.  “One of the biggest dangers of Vance is his implication that Appalachians are not only stupid but ineducable; such is the malicious misconception of thinking people choose to be ill, poor, or down on their luck.” Justin

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. I was going to do a giant catalogue of book lists I have been collecting over the last few weeks, but the news that Leonard Riggio, who built Barnes & Noble into the Goliath we

August 27, 2024, 10:25am Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries is catnip for a certain kind of reader. This gossipy chronicle describes the infamous editor’s rise to power during the mid-80s glory days of Condé Nast. There are Manhattan power lunches and cocktails with Warren Beatty. There are “wonderful parties” thrown by the Clurmans. It’s

Comma Press has been publishing Palestinian short stories since 2008. Comma’s connection to Palestinian literature deepened however in 2014 when, shortly after bringing out the anthology, The Book of Gaza, all the writers we’d worked with on that book were subjected to 51 days of carpet bombing of civilian targets (June through August, 2014). My

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rachel is a writer from Arkansas, most at home surrounded by forests and animals much like a Disney Princess. She spends most of her time writing stories and playing around in imaginary worlds. You can follow her writing

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 150 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall It’s late August, which means it is time for lists

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I encounter Liza for the first time while researching her husband, Oleg Dal, an actor who specialized in playing misanthropic men. Article continues after advertisement Oleg met Liza Apraksina in 1969, on the set of a King Lear adaptation. He was playing the Fool, and she was a film editor who cut the celluloid and

Partly Cloudy by Deborah Freedman This picture book centering two very different rabbits is actually a great way to learn about the different types of clouds. One rabbit sees imaginative things in the clouds, like cotton candy, jellyfish, and magic beans. The other rabbit corrects the imaginative one by explaining the different types of clouds,

For a person who’s supposed to be smart, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance delivers a pretty high volume of stupid and unstrategic remarks. It’s hard to tell if he is just used to operating within whatever tech-oligarchy or MAGA insider circles where this stuff flies, whether he just doesn’t have a clue, or if there

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