Literature

September 11, 2024, 1:25pm Questlove, best known as one of the more famous drummers to ever live and co-founder of The Roots, released a memoir this month called Hip-Hop is History. Co-written with his regular collaborator, Ben Greenman, this personal narrative builds on a growing canon of hip-hop lit. Fans will be pleased to know

Tuesday, we covered the announcement of the 2024 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature. Since then, this year’s National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature has also been released. The ten titles on the longlist were translated from six different languages—Danish, Arabic, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Swedish. They explore everything from “disorienting

September 10, 2024, 3:00pm Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 141 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Translated Literature are Aron Aji, Jennifer Croft, Jhumpa Lahiri (Chair), Gary Lovely, and Julia

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’: Production Paused On Amazon Drama From Neil Gaiman Good Omens, both the show and the book,

September 10, 2024, 1:44pm Last week, amid ongoing controversy over its primary sponsor’s links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, the embattled Giller Foundation quietly dropped ‘Scotiabank’ from the title of its flagship literary award. From here on out, the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada’s more prestigious and lucrative literary award) will be known simply as

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September 9, 2024, 7:01pm Today, the British Academy announced the 2024 shortlist for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. The international prize, now in its 12th year, celebrates “groundbreaking works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of world cultures and their interactions, and are grounded in

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us Hua Hsu writing a long profile of Richard Powers in The New Yorker. Happy Monday to me. I’ve read a

September 9, 2024, 1:35pm This back-to-school season brings bad tidings for dissent. Here in the U.S., academic institutions continue to restrict, thwart, and punish pro-Palestinian speech from students, employees, and teachers alike. After coming under fire for their treatment of campus protesters last term, New York University admins dropped an updated code of conduct that

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It was at his cousin Eleanor’s home in Cambridge, Tom recalled. A small party, an impromptu game of charades. He stepped on Emily Hale’s feet—and promptly fell in love with her. Article continues after advertisement For decades, their story was hidden away, a matter of scholarly speculation. A few months before Eliot married his secretary,

Popcorn by Rob Harrell Seventh grader Andrew’s anxiety feels like popcorn in his belly, and the more he heats up with anxiety, the more they pop. He’s been to therapy before, but his mother couldn’t afford it, so he does his best to practice what he learned while there. And he’s going to need those

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1879,  Arthur Conan Doyle’s first published story, “The Mystery of Sasassa Valley,” appears in Chambers’s Journal. “The height of American cool is grace and redemption, refined into art. A lightning strike of that transformation happened in the Bronx.” Ian Frazier on the early history of

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s Sapphic September! It’s always a good time to read sapphic books, in my opinion, but this is a great excuse to recommend some of my favourites. If you want my full reviews on these and hundreds of

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1911, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.  Rachel Kushner takes the Lit Hub questionnaire (and tells us about throwing a Brett Easton Ellis novel across the room). | Lit Hub In Conversation If

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ease into the weekend with a highlight reel of this week’s most popular posts. There’s so much good horror coming out this September. It was hard to narrow it down to just ten titles to share with you.