Literature

October 25, 2024, 2:25pm Bernardine Evaristo, president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) and author of the polyphonic, Booker-Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other, is paying it forward. And the “it” in question is some primo Kentish real estate. As part and parcel of the RSL’s newly inaugurated “Scriptorium” awards, Evaristo will be gifting her English cottage

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. 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlists The 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlists for Fiction and Nonfiction are out! You

An enduring bit of wisdom in selling works of popular nonfiction is that if a book spends most of its length identifying and elucidating a problem, it must have a prescriptive element in its final pages. Give the readers a happy ending; make them feel empowered to make change. All gloom and doom is bad

So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky Nell and her friends have rented a vacation house in Florida for spring break to get away from their lives for a bit. But Nell’s secrets didn’t stay at home. They came with, and they’ve decided to team up with the island’s own history of tragedy. Now, the

October 24, 2024, 11:43am Have you heard the one about a stone rolling into a book fair, and leaving a complete unknown? Bob Dylan, music icon and Chalamet look-alike, is currently on a European tour and happened to find himself at publishing’s biggest book fair: At the hotel in Frankfurt there was a publishing convention

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. ‘Good Omens’ Season 3 to Consist of One 90-Minute Episode, Neil Gaiman Not Involved in Production Season Three

In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, novelist Stephen Markley joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his novel The Deluge, which predicts and depicts the impact of climate change over the next couple of decades. Markley talks about researching and portraying the scale of catastrophic climate events, the role of the

Yesterday, we explored some of the books on Barnes & Noble’s very early Best-Of lists. While B&N’s Best Books of the Year is comprised of beaucoup lists, which include different age categories and genres, we’re keeping today’s focus strictly fantasy and horror-minded. One thing we noticed about the fantasy list is that it feels very

October 23, 2024, 2:30pm Viet Thanh Nguyen, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste, Laila Lalami, Sinan Antoon, Bryan Washington, and Susan Muaddi Darraj are among the hundreds of authors who have signed a petition calling for the reinstatement of Arab American writer Aisha Abdel Gawad, who was dismissed from her position as Writer-in-Residence at Wilton Library in September. The petition—which was organized

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. Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2024 B&N is out of the gate first among the major makers

The following is from Christian Kracht’s Eurotrash. Kracht’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His novel Imperium won the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2012. He lives in Zurich with his wife and daughter. Daniel Bowles’s translation of Imperium won the Goethe-Institut’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize in 2016. He lives

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Kaveh Akbar is just as brilliant a poet as he is a novelist, and Martyr! is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Cyrus Shams, his friend Zee, Cyrus’ parents, and his uncle each get their own distinct point-of-view chapters and feel so real. Cyrus also provides excerpts of his own work

October 22, 2024, 2:32pm Today Hulu released a trailer for the forthcoming Interior Chinatown, a limited series adapted from Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name. The show—like the book—will follow Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black and White.” The world unravels around our hero as

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. This is the Winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Really interesting shortlist for this year’s award, and the winner itself is not something I had on my radar. One thing

Heba Abu Nada, an acclaimed Palestinian poet and novelist, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on October 20, 2023. She was thirty-two years old. One year on from Heba’s death, Somaia Abu Nada pays tribute to the life and work of her beloved sister. * Dear Heba, Do

TODAY: In 1967, Norman Mailer is arrested along with 650 others for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam March on The Pentagon.  Matthew Lockwood shares the stories of early travelers from across the globe (who should probably be more famous). | Lit Hub History “If the material for

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October 21, 2024, 1:56pm Anne de Marcken has won the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over (New Directions). Marcken’s novel was selected from a shortlist of ten by an illustrious panel—Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Ken Liu, and Carmen Maria Machado—who