Literature

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Rebecca Yarros, author of last year’s über hits Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, has announced the title of the third book in The Empyrean series: Onyx Storm. Yarros said that Onyx Storm will have “politics, new adventures, old enemies and of course, dragons.” It’s set to be published January 21, 2025, but is available for

March 28, 2024, 2:37pm As of this morning, Harvard’s Houghton Library has removed a book bound with human skin from its collection. Or rather, the skin has been removed from the book. This is in accordance with the findings of a committee appointed to examine human remains in university museum collections. The expunging is also inspired

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1941, Virginia Woolf dies.   It turns out that sitting down to write and stepping up to the starting block aren’t so different. Jade Song on what swimming has taught her about craft. | Lit Hub Memoir The Great Bambino wasn’t the only slugger with an

Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura, published by Celadon Books Tatum Vega, living with her partner, Vera, loves her new life in sunny Chile. She wants to forget the decade she spent in New York City orbiting the brilliant and famous author M. Domínguez. When a reporter calls from the US asking for an interview, the

March 27, 2024, 12:58pm Image of Verb List from MoMA.org The artist Richard Serra died yesterday at 85. His sculptures combined the monumental with the intimate, pieces that overwhelm and envelop but are often the only ones in the museum you can touch. His New York Times obituary quotes Serra describing his work as “requir[ing] “a

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1950, Julia Alvarez is born.  “The porn star was a recent arrival in the firmament of American celebrity.” Jane Kamensky on how Candida Royalle became adult entertainment’s leading feminist performer and advocate. | Lit Hub Biography David Halberstam, Jonathan Mahler, Joe Posnanski, and more. Keith

Lucas Maxwell has been working with youth in libraries for over fifteen years. Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, he’s been a high school librarian in London, UK for over a decade. In 2017 he won the UK’s School Librarian of the Year award and in 2022 he was named the UK Literacy Association’s Reading For

March 26, 2024, 2:23pm These days you can’t swing a paperback—though, why would you swing a paperback—without hitting a new celebrity book club. First came Oprah, then Reese, then followed a whole succession of willowy blondes with apparent downtime and (judging from Insta) poolside access. The trend continues apace, it seems—we see you, Dakota Johnson—but

Jimmy Fallon announced yesterday the return of his book club, the Fallon Book Club. Previously, the book club would announce a short list of options to choose from. This time, though, there are 16 books facing off in a March Madness-style bracket to select the spring read. The books range across genres, including mysteries, literary

I. In Margaret Atwood’s 1981 novel Bodily Harm, the protagonist, Rennie, recalls a piece of graffiti she had once seen written on a toilet wall: “Life is just another sexually transmitted social disease.” This sentiment perfectly encapsulates the worldview of the philosopher-detective Rust (“Rust”) Cohle, whose character appears in season one of the HBO drama

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Steph Auteri is a journalist who has written for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Pacific Standard, VICE, and elsewhere. Her more creative work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, under the gum tree, Poets & Writers, and other publications,

Pictured above, left to right:Luna Husam Abu Nada, Bahaa Al-Masahal, Nahid Abdul Latif, Jouri Ramadan Mohammed Maqdad, Nahil Sami Ma’mar,Mamoud Duwaba. * As the gruesome deaths of Palestinians by hunger or drones fill our social media feeds but go largely unreported by mainstream media, The Martyrs of Gaza project is a needed antidote to the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. At first glance, task #7 of the 2024 Read Harder Challenge might sound a little intimidating, especially if you’re not a poetry reader: Read an indie published collection of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author. Here’s the

Verlaine famously insisted that the thought of writing a sentence like “the count walked into the drawing room” had forever put him off writing a novel. With a kind of perversity, I wonder how he’d have faced a sentence like “the count walked into the corner store and stood for several minutes reading cereal packets.”

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The National Book Critics Circle honors excellence in literature and focuses its work on elevating the conversation about books, reading, and criticism nationwide. The group formed in 1974 at New York’s legendary Algonquin Hotel. There are currently 600