Literature

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1847, Jane Eyre is published. “Americans are never shown what it actually looks like when a US drone strike hits a wedding party, or a child is crushed by a US tank.” Noam Chomsky on the horrors America hides as it wages war. | Lit

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October 15, 2024, 5:40pm Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last week, and no, we’re still not over it! Beating out a sea of favored predictions, Kang’s singularly surreal and audacious prose was a dark horse for Big Swede recognition. The academy praised Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is a classic of magical realism that was adapted into the 1992 movie of the same name, and now it’s appearing on screen in a new adaptation: an HBO Original series

October 15, 2024, 11:31am Arundhati Roy, the internationally celebrated author and human rights activist, has once again proven herself to be a model culture worker. On receiving the PEN Foundation’s annually given Pinter Prize last week, Roy announced that she’d be donating her prize money to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Named for the late

There’s been a lot of rumors about Taylor Swift writing a book, and now we finally have confirmation: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Book is out November 29th. This is a 256-page book with 500 pictures from the tour, accompanied by reflections written by Taylor Swift. It will be $40 and is available only through

In my latest novel, The Colony Club, I begin with one character, Daisy Harriman, in 1968, just her and a young reporter as she looks back over her life. She’s old, subdued but proud of her achievements. It’s an intimate scene, only two people in the spotlight. Article continues after advertisement That scene cuts to

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. Thanks to a new proviso in the South Carolina state budget, at least one public library system in the state has made

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement Stream of consciousness is not a literary affectation as many like to think, but the way our brains naturally work; traditionally we’re taught that narrative fiction requires breaks and quotation marks and chapters to be accessible, that dense, unbroken novels with serpentine sentences

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