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A new $25,000 book prize will recognize the best new literature about the arts.
Attention all writers who write about writing (or painting, or dancing, or music…): the Interlochen Center for the Arts and The Pattis Family Foundation have established a new annual award that seeks...
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Here are the winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards.
The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards—one of science fiction and fantasy’s most prestigious awards, decided by the popular vote of WorldCon members—were presented this weekend at the 81st WorldCon in...
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Tim O’Brien on Letting the World Decide What He’ll Read Next
Tim O’Brien’s new novel, America Fantastica, is available now from Mariner Books, so we asked him a few questions about his writing, reading, and more. What time of day do you write (and why)? Five...
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Here’s the winner of the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize.
Today in London, the British Academy announced the winner of the 11th British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by...
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What to Read Before and After Seeing Orlando, My Political Biography
Join Lit Hub at Film Forum on November 10th at 7 p.m., where we’ll be co-presenting a screening of the new film Orlando, My Political Biography, an incisive contemporization of Virginia Woolf’s 1928...
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Six Former Winners of the Cundill History Prize Reflect on What the Future Holds
In honor of the 2023 Cundill History Prize next week, we asked six former winners of the prize a few questions. * Tiya Miles, 2022 Winner What occupies you at the moment? What are you working on?...
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Kristen Roupenian and Susanna Fogel on Adapting “Cat Person” for Film
This conversation took place at the 2nd annual Refocus Film Festival, a four-day celebration of the art of adaptation hosted by Iowa City’s nonprofit cinema, FilmScene. Jane Keranen: Kristen, this was...
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Now is a Time to Speak: An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y
We, the undersigned friends of the 92nd Street Y, are writing to express our dismay and alarm at the Y’s decision to cancel Viet Thanh Nguyen’s event on October 20th, apparently because of Nguyen’s...
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How Diane Seuss Wrote The Poem That Matters Most to Her
It will surprise few to hear poets have a reputation for hoarding their discontents. Call it an occupational hazard for the “unacknowledged legislators,” those who devote their lives to making an...
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Lisa Gornick and Alice Elliott Dark on Altered States of Consciousness and...
Lisa Gornick and Alice Elliott Dark met a dozen years ago through the Montclair Writers Group, a group of women writers who have gathered regularly over the past quarter century to support one...
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Need a book recommendation? Take the coolest, weirdest literary quiz on the...
It’s November, which means that n+1 is back with Bookmatch, a weird and honestly very fun personality test that will, through important questions like “what finger are you” and “where did you leave...
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Announcing this year’s winner of the $75,000 Cundill History Prize.
Tania Branigan has won the 2023 Cundill History Prize for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution. “Haunting and memorable, Tania Branigan’s sensitive study of the...
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The Urgent Importance of Making Space for Stories from the Farmworking Community
This November, The Common published a portfolio of writing and art from the seasonal, migrant, and immigrant farmworkers who bring food to U.S. tables. The portfolio appears in the magazine’s fall...
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Here are the winners of the 2023 National Translation Awards.
On November 11th, 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...
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Tatiana Johnson-Boria on Writing Poems Like Film Montages
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Tatiana Johnson-Boria,...
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The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio
Shakespeare’s First Folio Title Page Shakespeare’s First Folio Table of Contents Shakespeare’s First Folio — The Tempest Shakespeare’s First Folio — The Tempest (page 2) Shakespeare’s First...
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Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Nine hundred pages, 1,233 dramatic characters speaking 844,421 words, but the most notable statistic is 36, as in the number of plays which appear in the first folio of William Shakespeare. Printed by...
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A Statement of Solidarity With Gaza From More Than 100 Literary Translators
A group of over one hundred literary translators—including International Booker Prize winners Jennifer Croft, Daisy Rockwell, and Deborah Smith, as well as Susan Bernofsky and Antonia Lloyd-Jones—have...
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40 Books to Understand Palestine
In the last 38 days, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Another 190 have been killed by Israeli army fire and settler violence in the West Bank. Tens of...
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From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books
The following essay by Tom Borders is excerpted from Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing & Bookselling in the 20th Century, edited by Buz Teacher and Janet...
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