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The Issues 2024: Going Deep on the Problem of Income Inequality
For the next four weeks, Literary Hub will be going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Each week at Lit Hub...
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Here are the shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in poetry...
Today, the American Literary Translators Association announced its shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards, which celebrate “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution...
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Here’s the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
Today, at an event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Peter Hoskin announced the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, which recognizes the best books in the category...
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A Beastly Love: Chronicling the Transformative Experience of Motherhood on...
Author Rachel Yoder and director Marielle Heller sit down to talk about Nightbitch, Heller’s new film based on Yoder’s novel of the same name. The film opens the third Refocus Film Festival on October...
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10 of the Best Books on the History of American Labor
The history of American labor is rich and vital. Without the sacrifices of generations of workers, who risked both lives and livelihoods in the name of fairness and equity, much of what we take for...
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The Issues 2024: Why the Labor Movement is So Important to Americans
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Here are the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize.
At a ceremony in New York City this evening, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize, given annual in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. “This...
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The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis and the punitively high cost of insulin seem like two sides of the same terrible coin: when healthcare is more about profit than healing. We are barely beginning to understand the...
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The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System
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Naomi Shihab Nye has won the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime...
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...
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Here’s the winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
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...
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Charles Baxter Lets Stories Tell Him When It’s Time to Write (and Other...
Charles Baxter’s novel, Blood Test, is available now from Pantheon, so we asked him a few questions about writing, reading, organizing books, and more. * Who do you most wish would read your book?...
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Here’s the winner of the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural...
Today, the British Academy announced the winner of the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, which “celebrates exceptional research and the role of non-fiction in bringing...
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The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem
For the next few weeks, Literary Hub will be going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Each week at Lit Hub we’ll...
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Here are the winners of the 2024 National Translation Awards.
On October 26th, 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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Kathleen DuVal has won the 2024 Cundill History Prize.
In a ceremony today in Montreal, Jury Chair Rana Mitter announced the winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which honors books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” This year’s winner,...
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The Issues 2024: The Fight for Climate Justice
For the past few weeks, Literary Hub has been going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls next week, on November 5th. We’ve featured...
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The Issues 2024: LGBTQ Rights Are in Grave Danger
For the past few weeks, Literary Hub has been going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls tomorrow. We’ve featured reading lists,...
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In Search of a Time Lost: A Selection of Proust’s Letters Translated by Lydia...
As we read these letters, it is helpful to picture the room in which Proust wrote them, and him in the room. Although one would imagine that the room would be preserved as a museum, even furnished with...
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Six Writers on Procrastination
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Taffy Brodesser-Akner Writing something else is honestly the wildest and most productive form of procrastination. It feels...
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