THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson encounters a mysterious sea creature in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. “For years I’ve been trying to obtain Greek citizenship, which, if one of your parents was born in Greece, can be, ostensibly, a straightforward process.” On experiencing your
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A few summers ago, while the Supreme Court was deciding whether or not abortion would remain legal, I was writing a novel about Bobby Kennedy. Article continues after advertisement During the day, I was a woman in the twenty-first century whose body was endlessly, feverishly debated by politicians and regulated by the state with little
Every month, Our Queerest Shelves has a roundup of the best queer books out that month. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all of those picks into a collection: The Best Queer Books Out in 2026. There are currently just over 100 books on the list, and I will be updating it
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) is suspended in the air above the traffic and the trees of the Avenida Paulista. By some architectural wizardry of concrete and glass the pictures inside stand to attention, as if they, too, are suspended in time and space—a collection that faces in one direction,
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The first time I read the Odyssey, I was sixteen years old. The fantastical creatures, the alien cultures, and the wily hero’s desperate search for home were all thrilling to me. I felt an uncanny familiarity: with the characters, yes, but also with the way the story was told, and what it seemed to be
Every month, Book Riot does a round-up of the most exciting new sci-fi and fantasy releases of the year. But let’s be honest, science fiction is often drowned out by fantasy in the SFF space. So, we’ve gone through all those new releases round-ups to highlight just the science fiction titles in this collection: The
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray is born. On the rise (and fall) of the Japanese cell phone novel in the early 2000s (and the its attendant moral panic). | Lit Hub Technology Josh Cook, bookseller and founder of the Porter Square Review of Books, explores why booksellers are
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1901, Polish poet, novelist, and playwright Bruno Jasieński is born. Henry Power tackles an age old question: How many Homers were there, actually? | Lit Hub History “The Odyssey is as relevant as ever it was. And I, for one, cannot wait for the next rendition of this
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On July 6, two days before the publication of its report on the cultural boycott of Israel, PEN America made a subtle but important change to its position on boycotts. The organization had developed language almost twenty years earlier opposing the academic boycott of Israel, making PEN America the only PEN chapter to have a
Book censorship and attacks on LGBTQ+ people from the right have been nonstop since 2021. Thanks to far-right social media that thrives off picking a victim of the day and going all in on harassment and stochastic terrorism, as well as legislators who spend more time thinking about what’s happening in the underpants of children
Oh, Bret Easton Ellis. You old lightning rod. The Gen X nihilist known for anchoring the literary Brat Pack and depicting depraved superficial youth is shifting his talents to television. With the help of—who else?—our favorite chaos agent, Ryan Murphy. The Shards is a haute drama slasher series, based on Ellis’s 2023 novel. Set against
Rebecca Yarros has announced the fourth addition to the mega-bestselling Empyrean series on Instagram. The book is titled Threshing Day and will be available on September 29th this year. Threshing Day is a little different from the other books in the series, though. It is not a sequel to the third book, Onyx Storm. Instead,
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.” This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement In the spring of 1939, one J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, he handed in a grand total of nothing, but signed up for the class
One of the great pleasures of being human is finding out what things bring us joy, and the pursuit of those things. For instance, perhaps you love to read, but you haven’t picked up anything in the science fiction or fantasy genres yet. If that’s the case—welcome! Come on in, the water’s fine. For readers