In a recent review for The Baffler, Adrian Nathan West considered a pair of novels written as responses to existing classics. This got me thinking about literary reboots. There are lots of novels adapted from myths (Madeline Miller’s Song of Read more >
Image from The Guardian/Reuters The British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah was reunited with his family on Monday after spending most of the last decade in prison. Abd El-Fattah is one of Egypt’s most prominent writers and dissidents, and Read more >
Fall brings the end of the film festival circuit. It’s a time for cinephiles and film bros to rejoice and reflect. A time for Criterion Closet creeps and midnight movie goers to bust out their best merch, and make award Read more >
Today, at a public event in London, the Booker Prizes announced their 2025 shortlist: six books narrowed down from the “Booker’s Dozen” (otherwise known as the longlist of 13), which was itself chosen from a starting pool of 153 books Read more >
After over 26 years in operation on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the radical, feminist bookshop and cafe Bluestockings is closing shop at the end of 2025. The announcement was made on their homepage, as well as on social media: View Read more >
On Peacock, a new sitcom about a flatlining local paper is attempting to draw eyeballs back to the newsroom. (Of all places!) And last Monday, The Studio, an inside Hollywood baseball game, swept the comedic Emmy categories. While Hacks, its Read more >
Another week of hell in America. Dark times shade even darker, and yet through it all, in ways both uplifting and stupefying, life goes on. At the very least, be it for edification, or self-help, escapism, or grounding, books continue Read more >
Today, on his 65th birthday, poet and memoirist Kenny Fries has announced the inaugural winner of a new annual award, the Kenny Fries Disabled Writer Literary Award, which “seeks to provide visibility to the next generation of disabled and/or Deaf Read more >
Loyalty Bookstore, in the northwest D.C. neighborhood of Petworth, has experienced a downturn in sales since federal jackboots hit the capitol pavement, as NBC’s News4 recently reported. The bookstore, which according to their website “aim[s] to bring the best diverse Read more >
Today, the American Library in Paris announced the shortlist for their 2025 Book Award, which “celebrates outstanding works of literature that draw on France as a timeless source of inspiration.” The four shortlisted titles are: Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Read more >
Sometimes the best thing you can say about a week is that it’s over. Hope you have a restful last weekend of summer, and if you missed out on any of the news from this week of too much news, Read more >
It was a dark one out there, friends. But we at Lit Hub made it through this week on tides of nostalgia, inspirational icons, and seasonal fruit. I, Brittany Allen, report from St. Louis this Friday—where I’m obliged to shout Read more >
Copyright for featured image: Apple TV+ I was trolling the internet, looking for something amusing to temporarily lighten the devastating blow of Robert Redford’s passing, when I found a bright bit of comedy in a Mashable article. The author, Kristy Read more >
Sally Rooney, the iconic Millennial bard, can no longer safely enter the United Kingdom for fear of arrest. The author behind Intermezzo and Normal People recently received English flack for her support of Palestine Action. And today, The Guardian reports that Read more >
Barnes & Noble, former sworn enemy to the indie bookstore, may be shaking up its business model. Under the leadership of CEO James Daunt, the company has been using its unlikely second act to bail out struggling indies. Most recently, Read more >
Is Emmy award winning show The Pitt ripping off ER? Michael Crichton’s estate is claiming that it has, and a judge has given the go-ahead for the issue to go to trial. Scrub up, lawyers. This is about more than Read more >
Nobel Laureates Annie Ernaux, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and J.M.G. Le Clézio are among a group of twenty prominent writers who have signed a public letter to President Emmanuel Macron urging the immediate resumption of France’s evacuation program for Palestinian scholars, artists, Read more >
For the next eight weeks, Harper’s Bazaar will sponsor a new literary newsletter from Kaitlyn Greenidge. Greenidge, the novelist behind Libertie and We Love You, Charlie Freeman and the excellent thinker behind pieces like these, isn’t new to the newsletter Read more >
As summer gives way to fall—cooler nights, busier days—there are more opportunities to be present, to be deliberate, to be enmeshed in the dailiness of one’s life. All of which means… more time for books! And we have a great Read more >
The Library of Congress just announced that Arthur Sze will be the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate for 2025-2026. He will take over the position on October 9th from the previous Laureate Ada Limón, who served for two, two-year terms. Sze Read more >