Literature

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

Smart robots have populated fiction for generations, but now with artificial intelligence exploding around us, we’re seeing more titles than ever that grapple with this technology. In the following novels and stories, authors delve into personal relationships between humans and A.I. consciousnesses that may or may not inhabit bodies. Themes of loneliness, love, personhood, and

Book Deals This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deal In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals View original source here

When my Abuela died in early 2021, I couldn’t say goodbye to her in person. The day that she died, I felt her at the end of my bed. I was twisted in guilt. I was asleep, but it was a flimsy sleep, not deep. She was laughing at me. “What are you crying for?

Book Deals This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deal In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals View original source here

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1931, Japanese crime writer, actress, singer, and queer nightlife icon Masako Togawa is born.   “The routine was not all that remarkable for her, but from the outside looking in, it felt momentous.” Mia Manzulli considers proximity, distance, and living next to Joyce Carol Oates. |

Young Adult Deals Deals Mar 23, 2024 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. $2.99 The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix Get This Deal $3.99 The Truth of Right Now by Kara Lee Corthron Get This Deal

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1896, novelist and literary historian Ludwig Laistner dies.  “When the noise and ugliness got so loud, I focused in on a point of beauty.” Maniza Naqvi on saving Karachi’s oldest bookstore. | Lit Hub Bookstores María Alejandra Barrios Vélez recommends ghost stories by Juan Rulfo,

Book Deals This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals View original source here

The following is from Alvina Chamberland’s English language debut Love the World Or Get Killed Trying. Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels. In 2015 Bokförlaget ETC published her co-authored book Allt som är Mitt: Våldtäkt, Stigmatisering och Upprättelse (English translation: All that is mine: Rape, Stigmatization and Reparation). She resides

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. It’s Friday. The sun is out. Baseball is back. March Madness has begun. And I’ve got a case