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On February 14, the Jewish Book Council announced an initiative “for authors, pub­lish­ers, publicists, agents, edi­tors, and read­ers to report anti­se­mit­ic lit­er­ary-relat­ed inci­dents.” “Anti­semitism,” says the Jewish Book Council, is defined as “prej­u­dice against or hatred of Jewish peo­ple.” But what counts as antisemitic language? Interpretations differ. Some Jewish organizations like the Anti Defamation League

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I can’t believe we’re at the end of month two of the 2024 Read Harder Challenge! Despite writing these updates every week, it still seems to be sneaking up on me. As always, this week I have my

February 29, 2024, 10:37am Get out your bucket hats: Sally Rooney has a new novel! Intermezzo will be arriving September 24 from FSG (and Knopf in Canada, and Faber in the UK). You are likely familiar with Rooney’s work, but just in case you need a reminder or recently woke up from a decades-long nap,

A Reading Rainbow documentary, titled Butterfly in the Sky, will be released in certain AMC theaters. The movie, which premiered during the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, shows the behind-the-scenes happenings of the iconic ’80s children show, as well as the particular challenges host LeVar Burton and others faced in promoting childhood literacy through it. View

February 28, 2024, 10:47am On February 24th, iconic Parisian department store Le Bon Marché unveiled a new project curated by Sarah Andelman, co-founder of the (almost) equally iconic concept store Colette. “Mise en Page,” which Andelman created with French artist Jean Jullien, who is also a cofounder of the Korean brand NouNou. Just like Colette,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused

February 28, 2024, 12:13pm A Mask, the Color of the Sky , the latest novel by imprisoned Palestinian author Basim Khandaqji, has been named among the six finalists for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. A Mask, the Color of the Sky revolves around the life of Nur, an archaeologist residing in a refugee camp in

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1934, N. Scott Momaday is born.  “I was still reporting to my father, the things I had read and all that I had remembered.” Amitava Kumar on family, loss, and resonating with the words of other writers. | Lit Hub Memoir “Even in the worst

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Last week, it felt like 90 percent of my social media timelines were filled with accounts of Palestinian journalists losing their lives in Gaza or of American journalists losing their jobs in the United States. Abroad, the situation looked especially bleak in the north of Gaza, where few reporters remain and where there is no

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February 26, 2024, 10:51am Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, written by Tony McNamara, and based on the 1992 novel Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer by the postmodern writer Alasdair Gray, was one of Literary Hub’s very favorite film adaptations (and films, in general) of 2023.

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

Over the past four months, senior administrators at New York City’s Columbia University have found themselves at odds with a significant contingent of their faculty and student body over protests related to Israel’s war on Gaza. On November 1, 2023, Columbia announced the establishment of a Task Force on Antisemitism, to “enhance our ability to

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We were asleep in Princeton, New Jersey, when the phone rang. My wife Aisha grabbed for it, listened—then let out a scream so loud, I was afraid the neighbors would call the police. It was her son, Neto—my stepson—on the phone. Neto had just informed his mother that his half-brother was dead. * Luis Alberto