Judith Kerr, author of beloved children’s books including The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the Mog series, has died at 95, her publisher HarperCollins confirmed. Kerr fled Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee with her family in 1933 and Read more >
The announcement on Tuesday that Jokha Alharthi and her translator Marilyn Booth received this year’s Man Booker International Prize for Celestial Bodies brought smiles to many people’s faces, and for good reason. Celestial Bodies is the first novel written by an Omani Read more >
As if to prove once and for all that she does not actually require you to throw away all your books, people, so put down your pitchforks, Marie Kondo is herself writing another one. Her next project will be a Read more >
Yesterday, we got excited by this billboard in London’s Leicester Square, which seemed to hint that, at long last, Hilary Mantel’s beloved Thomas Cromwell trilogy, which began with Wolf Hall, might be coming to a conclusion. This morning, HarperCollins confirmed Read more >
Donald Trump, Jr., a man who may or may not be subject to a witch’s curse, has sold a book. As you probably don’t recall, because every day is approximately 27 years long, Trump was shopping the book last year Read more >
Just minutes ago in a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse, Celestial Bodies, written by Jokha Alharthi and translated by Marilyn Booth, was announced as the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize (which is worth a whopping £50,000!). The win makes Alharthi Read more >
You guys, you guys: beloved RuPaul’s Drag Race alums and hosts of UNHhhh Katya Zamolodchikova and Trixie Mattel have sold a book to Plume. According to Publishers Marketplace, it will be “a satirical advice book styled as a mid-century homemaking Read more >
The name Jacob Rees-Mogg might not mean a lot to most Americans, hypnotized as they are by the orange glow of their own garbage fire, but alongside former London mayor Boris Johnson and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the ludicrously Read more >
A 2003 cartoon by Gary Cangemi suggests that abortion kills geniuses, geniuses are male, and women are their vessels. In a special issue of his strip Umbert the Unborn entitled “The Greatest Moments in Unborn History,” a fetal Thomas Edison Knocked Up, why are so many abortion stories about... men?">Read more >
If this person can return their overdue library book, so can you: last week, someone brought a copy of The White Owl by Annie MP Smithson back to a library in Ireland more than 80 years after it was checked Read more >
Last night, on his blog, George R. R. Martin wrote a little bit about the journey that was HBO’s Game of Thrones, thanking those who worked on the show and dipping a little bit into what’s next—including what’s next for Game of Thrones.">Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
Alabama local newspapers The Birmingham News, Mobile Press Register and Huntsville Times devoted their Sunday editions to more than 200 essays on abortion, reproductive justice, and life as women in Alabama. They run the gamut and are very worth your Read more >
If you’re a regular Lit Hub reader, you know that we publish quite a bit every day of the week. No one can be expected to read everything, but we thought it might be helpful to start offering a weekly Read more >
Paul Lisicky, the author of five books, including The Narrow Door, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy, has a new memoir coming out in March next year. Here’s the cover: According to the team at Graywolf: When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he Later.">Read more >
Pico Iyer on decolonizing travel: “The world has gotten so much more interesting in our lifetimes.” –On The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan * Erin Somers on rich kids, melancholy, slapstick, and more: “I think that it would be really Buffy the Vampire Slayer">Read more >
Everyone is in shock. How did this happen? * My family arrives and no one knows what to do with their hands or where they should be looking or how they should be feeling. They just sit and wait for Read more >
On May 14, Busy Philipps sent out a tweet. “1 in 4 women have had an abortion,” she wrote, in reference to a December 2017 study published in the American Journal of Public Health. “Many people think they don’t know Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
We all know L. Frank Baum as the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its many sequels. But you may not know that he lived quite a few lives before becoming a beloved children’s book author. He sold Read more >
