Literature

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

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 2001, Eudora Welty dies.  On why we should all pay more attention to plants: “So much beauty, so much drama, so much wisdom we miss out on if we fail to connect with plants.” | Lit Hub Science “The first part of You Suck is

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1916, George Bernard Shaw publishes “Shall Roger Casement Hang?” in the Manchester Guardian. Article continues below View original source here

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 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century is Moving Units I have gotten emails from

The online magazine Guernica, which I co-founded twenty years ago, published an essay in March that sparked an uproar among readers, staff and media, both mainstream and social. Article continues below A day after its publication, I got to read the essay that provoked so much debate and ill feeling, a meditation on empathy during

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

Go to the corner of Bedford and Romer. You’ll see the yellow mansion that used to be a girls’ boarding school. Down Romer a bit, on the land that used to be the yellow mansion’s English garden, is the giant new Cape Cod with a ludicrously long front walk at whose end every Halloween a

María Mariposa by Karla Arenas Valenti, illustrated by Ana Ramírez González María lives in a brand new country, and on the first day of school, a gift arrives on her windowsill from Mexico: a mariposa. The butterfly carries the memory of her old home on its wings, and it helps her feel more brave. Feeling

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On Wednesday evening, I opened up the New York Times homepage—something I do with fevered regularity these days as Gaza coverage slips further and further down the pecking order—and began to scroll. I scrolled past stories about the ghoulish pageantry of the Republican National Convention, about JD Vance’s Machiavellian ascent, about the timeline and fallout

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you the spreadsheet I keep of the queer books that have come out so far in 2024 — more than 600 of them, in fact. I’ll let you in on

TODAY: In 1866, in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the steamer Governor Higginson encounters a mysterious sea creature. During the encounter, the creature shoots two enormous columns of water 150 feet into the air. Did anyone ask us? No. Did we do it anyway? Of course. We compiled 71 of the best

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July 19, 2024, 1:53pm When I think of America, some of the first things that pop into my mind are the domestic affairs of the landed elites, dancing a cotillion with your social equals, and enjoying that all-American treat: Mr. Bingley’s white soup, made with USA’s finest egg yolk, cream, and almonds. That’s America according

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. On the Life-Changing Joy of Re-Reading Books I hardly ever re-read books. It’s not that I am against