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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. Queer Eye for the Bookish Guy Interior designer to the stars Jeremiah Brent is on a hell of

March 21, 2024, 4:05pm Last Wednesday, a group of prominent authors—including Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, and Isabella Hammad—signed an open letter to PEN America in which they announced their decision not to participate in this year’s PEN World Voices Festival due to the organization’s inadequate response to the unfolding genocide in Gaza. The authors accused

You may have thought that libraries got some kind of discount when it comes to materials, but it’s actually the opposite. And, it’s a problem. This month, The Associated Press reported on how not only are libraries not afforded discounts when it comes to digital materials like ebooks, they also pay more than individual consumers

Nearly every night, through our mudroom window, I could see that she was writing. In a room facing the road, with only a single light on, she worked religiously. There was something comforting about knowing she was there, that she was making yet another contribution to the world of literature while I was doing the

After you’ve checked out the finalists for the 59th Nebula Awards, I’ve got some recent mystery/thrillers for you to discuss with your book club. These mysteries will take you everywhere, from Nigeria to Japan and Ireland, and include established faves and newcomers alike. Nibbles and Sips These french toast bites are made with Hawaiian rolls

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1897, Stephen Crane sails to England as a war correspondent for the New York Journal to cover the impending Greco-Turkish War.  Howard Norman talks to Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in twenty-five years. | Lit Hub In Conversation “If the infant is

The new documentary Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians aims to show a new, pioneering perspective on Black librarians, and the great influence they’ve wielded, which reached outside of libraries and into moments like the Civil Rights Movement. Rodney E. Freeman Jr. is the executive producer of the documentary, and a

Recently I had a few conversations with Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in 25 years. With capacious introspection as well as intimate documentary recall, the poems and prose in A Year of Last Things, make for a symphonic treatise on memory itself. And the way in which it reconstitutes a whole life

Participation is pretty straightforward: both public schools and libraries are able to take part by registering by the end of February; making available at least 12 of the 20 master list books to students; participants must read or listen to at least three of the titles on the master list; then opening up rules and

March 19, 2024, 1:30pm There may or may not be snow on the ground outside your window (that sound is upstate New Yorkers crying for sun) but meteorologically, today is the first day of spring, which is as good a reason as any to take the afternoon off to read—or at least to recommend some

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last year, I wrote about the first Trans Rights Readathon, a decentralized fundraiser that went on to raise over $234,000 for transgender aid organizations. Since then, unfortunately, anti-trans legislation has continued to sweep across the country, and the

One of the most celebrated lines from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita emerges from the lips of the devil himself. “Manuscripts don’t burn,” Woland, the mysterious Professor of Black Magic, tells the eponymous Master. The declaration echoes throughout the narrative: try as the Soviet authorities might, they cannot ban, repress, or destroy the

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. Let’s Get Critical In advance of the National Book Critics Circle Awards coming up this Thursday, members of

March 18, 2024, 1:06pm Sally Rooney continues to be one of the literary world’s most vocal and eloquent advocates for Palestinian rights, as well as a trenchant critic of Israeli brutality and US complicity in the war on Gaza. In a controlled-but-blistering op-ed published in the The Irish Times on Saturday, ahead of Irish Taoiseach

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Every year, in the weeks leading up to the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the NBCC board members take the time to review and appreciate the thirty finalists, recognized in Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Needless to say, these thirty books make a pretty good reading list. This year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards will be

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 WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

Readers spend most of their time inside books. That’s where the action is. But when talking about a book’s design people usually focus on the covers: ooh look at that beauty or how interesting, I want to pick that up. But you might not realize that the inside of books is also designed, every single