Literature

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October 11, 2024, 11:12am We’re well into Halloween’s favorite month — October — when costumed kids, Hot Topic teens, and arts-and-crafts-obsessed adults all join together to celebrate the season of spookiness. If you’ve been feeling a little left out, we’ve got your back. I put together a little Literary Terrors Bingo filled with book-world horrors,

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October 10, 2024, 10:00am Today, the American Literary Translators Association announced its shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards, which celebrate “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality.” Prizes will be awarded in both poetry and prose. “Our

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. South Korean Novelist Han Kang Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang’s Nobel Prize is unusual in

October 10, 2024, 2:45pm Today, at an event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Peter Hoskin announced the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, which recognizes the best books in the category published in English in the UK over the past year. “The six shortlisted books showcase a breathtaking range of subjects and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about trans history from Roman emperor Elagabalus to the Stonewall uprising with the upcoming Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett. This graphic nonfiction

October 9, 2024, 11:53am The bookish sister, under-regarded in every film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is finally getting a new lease on life. A new BBC adaptation will pay special attention to Mary’s journey. As The AV Club reported, “To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the beloved miniseries, the network has commissioned a new

The horror renaissance has done new book releases for the last few years good. The titles that have made it to many Goodreads members’ lists have been by mega bestsellers like Stephen King, sure, but they’ve also been by more authors of color, and have explored things like social issues and family trauma through the

October 9, 2024, 1:14pm Image from Desert Island’s fundraiser. Here’s some good news to brighten your Wednesday: after being threatened with eviction, beloved indie comic shop Desert Island raised nearly $90,000 in three days to keep the shop in business. The outpouring of support from Desert Island’s community of shoppers, fans, and artists is a

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October 8, 2024, 11:28am The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday, October 10. Who will win? As ever, no one knows. But everyone likes to guess…and bet. And because money talks, the betting odds can tell you a lot. Or a little. Or, something, anyway! To figure out where to put

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature Betting odds for The Nobel is such a bizarre, impossible, and ill-advised endeavor, and I hope they do it forever. This year’s

October 8, 2024, 11:36am Last week, the world’s most perfect television show celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under-loved on its initial release, Freaks and Geeks now enjoys one of the smugger lost cause fan clubs. We are legion, us torch-holders for Lindsay and Sam. As any one of those smug fans will tell you, Freaks and

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 20,000 readers of literary fiction…? Rebecca Schinksy and I talked about this whisper of a rumor of a stat a few weeks ago on the Book Riot podcast, and Leigh Stein apparently had the same

With the spirit of fall and the countdown to Halloween in mind, I decided to roundup some books that, while all different from each other, can fit an October reading vibe. Let’s call them different fall reading flavors! It’s been horrible to watch the devastation left behind in Hurricane Helene’s wake in the Southeast. I

The press and especially the news channels are constantly warning us that antisemitism is everywhere on the rise. They don’t point to specific episodes, content instead to denounce an ancient prejudice that in the context of a Middle East crisis is staging a resurgence. No, they describe a gigantic wave of antisemitism that has been