Literature

March 15, 2024, 11:58am The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards, recognizing some of the best SFF writing from 2023. SFWA is also honoring Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising) with the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, recognizing her lifetime achievement in science

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The Lord commands the sacrifice of Isaac without explanation. He does it to test Abraham, according to the text. From his leaving Ur of the Chaldeans to the birth of Isaac, the narrative of Abraham has been all faith and patience and longing. Everything he is promised is contingent upon the son he does not

During Thursday, March 14, 2024’s Autauga-Prattville Public Library board meeting, library director Andrew Foster, alongside other employees, were fired from their jobs. It was yet another move by the board to not only impose power over the institution, but to also ensure that the library will fail to serve its role as an institution of

Dave Eggers has a new novel coming out—sort of. McSweeney’s just announced The Forgetters, which is described as something which “will someday be a probably-overlong novel by Dave Eggers; when the whole thing will be finished is anyone’s guess. But in the meantime, we’re releasing standalone, short-story-sized portions of the book as beautiful mini hardcovers.”

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hello again, Read Harder readers! Hmm, there has to be a better collective name for us. Any suggestions? Today, I wanted to give you a heads up for a couple of upcoming online author events, if you’re looking

Goodreads has gathered up a list of 81 recent books that have been the most popular on the site. All of these books — which fall under different genres — have been published within the last six months. The reasoning behind each book’s popularity runs the gamut — some are probably popular at least partially

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. This week saw the publication of Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, a work that was incomplete at the time

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. I go away for a week and we get both a new online bookstore from RuPaul (didn’t have that one

March 12, 2024, 2:47pm Earlier this afternoon, hundreds of book workers from around the UK gathered in the rain outside the London Book Fair (one of the largest book publishing trade fairs in the world) to mourn and remember the 187 Palestinian writers, poets, journalists, and scholars killed by Israeli forces since October 7, and

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The following is from Virginia Miller Reeves’ Once in the Blue Moon. Reeves was born and raised on a cotton farm in Oklahoma. She is still married to the boy she met at fourteen after leaving that farm. Once in the Blue Moon is inspired by the author’s family stories, and set her life course

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced! This prize recognizes outstanding novels and short story collections translated to English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. There are 13 books on the longlist, which

March 11, 2024, 10:33am Today, the International Booker Prize—which seeks to honor the best novels and short story collections in translation published in the UK and/or Ireland every year—announced its 2024 longlist. The 13 books on this year’s longlist were selected from 149 books published between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024 and submitted

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There are 24 tasks in the 2024 Read Harder Challenge, and while that’s spread out over the course of the year, it can sometimes feel like a lot of reading to get through. That’s why tasks like #6,

Mortality is the imagination’s greatest engine. For my father, who  almost reached a second century on earth, nearing the exit made him a poet. When Herbert Gold was seventeen, he managed to publish a single poem in a local Cleveland paper. Embarrassed at the results a few weeks later, he abandoned poetry, enlisted in the

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As the dreary days of winter slog toward spring, many of us are dreaming of a vacation. The good news is that even if you can’t get out of town, there are plenty of amazing rom-coms that can carry you away with will-they or won’t-they characters, lots of fun scenery, some occasional miscommunications and a