Literature

“I feel that I am much more complete when I don’t understand. Not understanding, to my way of thinking, is a gift. It’s an odd blessing, like being insane without being crazy.”–Clarice Lispector (tr. MJ Costa)* Article continues below It took me a decade to figure out my first novel. When asked what I was

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TODAY: In 1928, Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness is published by Jonathan Cape in London. Later that year, it is convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its lesbian content.  Emily Van Duyne talks knowledge production and outing yourself as a Sylvia Plath reader. | Chicago Review of Books Liza Donnelly on

Welcome to Today in Books, our round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest stories from the last week. The New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century is Moving Units I have gotten emails from booksellers and librarians (and regular book buyers and borrowers too)

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1894, Aldous Huxley is born.  Justin Muchnick on his favorite novel of the Olympics: “Alexias is a universal sporting figure—and yet, because he is simultaneously Renault’s creation, he is also a unique one.” | Lit Hub Criticism “Without questions and doubts, without cataclysms and conflagrations,

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2024 TikTok Award Winners Since the biggest TikTok books sell hundreds of thousands of copies, one could argue that the cash is the prize of being a BookTok favorite. But apparently you can get

The New York Times recently released a list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” As is typical for the Times, the list quickly went viral and was widely debated and celebrated on social media. Article continues below However, 61 of the writers on this list are American. The two African books on

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July 25, 2024, 2:51pm Last week, shortly after the announcement that JD Vance would be joining the Republican ticket, I was working my bookstore gig at The Golden Notebook when a woman came in and asked me if we had any copies of Hillbilly Elegy. I took a glance at the inventory, told her we did

Sony is adapting Liz Moore’s novels The Unseen World and The God of the Woods, which we just wrote about as being Thee Book of the Summer. The plan is for both adaptations to be developed as series, with the same executive producers as Sony’s adaptation of Liz Moore’s Long Bright River: Neal H. Moritz

July 25, 2024, 10:20am If you’ve been following political news, you’ve likely heard about Project 2025, the massive conservative “wish list for a Trump presidency.” The 900-page document is a blueprint for an authoritarian, Christian nationalist America, created by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has influenced many of America’s most regressive and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1900, Zelda Fitzgerald is born.  Kate Preziosi recommends books on the literary relationship between travel and madness, featuring Rachel Lyon, Scarlett Thomas, and Kimberly King Parsons. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “In the beginning I was only myself. Everything that happened to me, I thought,

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 Reading Revolution: How the Literary Sphere Took Over I have been trying to figure out why book

July 24, 2024, 9:30am We’re living in the golden age of wacky book merch: Raven Leilani’s Luster nail polish, Sally Rooney’s on-trend Beautiful World bucket hats, and now Sable Yong’s Die Hot With A Vengeance perfume. Of course, this is nothing new — the ‘90s had a streak of collectible trading cards of writers —

When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation by Tara Sidhoo Fraser When Fraser is thirty-two years old, she experiences a stroke. Her doctor discovers that she has a rare mutation that caused her brain to hemorrhage. After doctors performed the surgery that saved her life, Fraser wakes up only to realize

July 23, 2024, 2:15pm Emily Nussbaum’s latest book, Cue the Sun, chronicles the rise and fall of reality television. In chipper prose, the rigorously researched history explores how certain networks have managed to seize our collective attention span with a spate of “real” programming. From Survivor to The Bachelor and beyond, what is it about

Harris books are moving, Hugo culls fraudulent votes, N.K. Jemisin on the literature of survival, and more. Kamala Harris Book Sales Soaring A 60,000% increase in book sales means (at least) two things are true: enormous surge in interest and a low starting point. If Harris were selling 1000 copies a week, say, before Biden