Literature

Foreword. The following pages were found in a shabby pocket book, very much sodden and discoloured by salt water, tucked away between the crevices of a rock in —Bay. Their owner has never been traced, and the most diligent enquiries have failed to discover his identity. Either the wretched man drowned himself near the spot
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The following is from Jessie van Eerden’s Call it Horses. van Eerden is author of three novels: Glorybound, My Radio Radio, and Call It Horses. Her portrait essay collection The Long Weeping won the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, and her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, Oxford American, New England
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fairly quiet on the books news front today (and I would expect it to be this way for awhile for reasons you can probably guess and are feeling yourself. Nervous), so I am clear out
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John Green, the bestselling author of books like The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, both of which have been adapted, is releasing a nonfiction book about Tuberculosis titled Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. The book will be published in spring 2024 by Crash Course Books, a
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The following is from Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Debroah. Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956, and settled in France in 1992. Gallimard published her autobiographical account of the Rwandan genocide, Inyenzi ou les Cafards (Cockroaches), which marked her entry into literature. In 2019, her book The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the 2019 National
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October 28, 2024, 9:00am On October 26th, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the winners of the 25th National Translation Awards. The NTAs are awarded, in both poetry and prose, to “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate
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First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully
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I was too young to see Showgirls when it was released to theaters in 1995, but I was old enough to notice the media narrative surrounding the newest “worst film of all time.” Paul Verhoeven’s NC-17 erotic melodrama was panned, mocked, reviled. Rita Kempley claimed in The Washington Post that the filmmakers were “little better
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