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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Kaveh Akbar is just as brilliant a poet as he is a novelist, and Martyr! is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Cyrus Shams, his friend Zee, Cyrus’ parents, and his uncle each get their own distinct point-of-view chapters and feel so real. Cyrus also provides excerpts of his own work

October 22, 2024, 2:32pm Today Hulu released a trailer for the forthcoming Interior Chinatown, a limited series adapted from Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name. The show—like the book—will follow Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black and White.” The world unravels around our hero as

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. This is the Winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Really interesting shortlist for this year’s award, and the winner itself is not something I had on my radar. One thing

Heba Abu Nada, an acclaimed Palestinian poet and novelist, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on October 20, 2023. She was thirty-two years old. One year on from Heba’s death, Somaia Abu Nada pays tribute to the life and work of her beloved sister. * Dear Heba, Do

TODAY: In 1967, Norman Mailer is arrested along with 650 others for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam March on The Pentagon.  Matthew Lockwood shares the stories of early travelers from across the globe (who should probably be more famous). | Lit Hub History “If the material for

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October 21, 2024, 1:56pm Anne de Marcken has won the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over (New Directions). Marcken’s novel was selected from a shortlist of ten by an illustrious panel—Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Ken Liu, and Carmen Maria Machado—who

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The following is from xx’s Clean. Born in Chile, Alia Trabucco Zerán is the author of a nonfiction book, When Women Kill, and the novel The Remainder, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize and has been translated into eight languages. Sophie Hughes is the translator of more than twenty books. She has

Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until

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October 18, 2024, 9:00am This morning, the Academy of American Poets announced this year’s recipients of two of its major prizes: the Wallace Stevens Award and the Academy Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement. Naomi Shihab Nye has won the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award, which recognizes “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry,” and

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