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Per his own book, Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee is down for Civil War II

Jeff Sharlet, author of The Undertow, and one of our very best (and bravest) writers engaging with American fascism as it actually exists on the ground, has done the ugly work of reading Pete Hegseth’s book, The War on Warriors. Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Here are Libro’s bestselling audiobooks of 2024.

Lend us your ears, readers. Today, our friends at Libfro.fm have released a list of the year’s bestselling audiobooks. Data was based on reporting from more than 3,000 independent bookstores. Cake-taking titles span the genre gamut, from romance to mystery Read more >

By Brittany Allen

And the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize is . . .

The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize is Samantha Harvey for her novel Orbital (Grove Press). The announcement was made by Edmund de Waal, Chair of the 2024 judges, in a ceremony in London, on November 12. de Waal described the Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor

Didion and Babitz! John Berger! Sylvia Plath! 24 new books out today.

It’s a week after America’s latest, and far from greatest, election, a day that many of us are still processing. I have so much to say, as we all do, and I’ll say it elsewhere soon. But for the moment, Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Six newsletters to get you through this week.

It’s the week after the election. You’re inundated with takes, ranging from the knee-jerk-libidinal appeal to the sagely analytical post-mortem. More are certainly coming. Writers be writing. But in the meantime, you’ve got a bed to get out of. Breakfast Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Find your next great read with a few simple—and delightfully weird—questions.

Good news for readers, literary magazine supporters, quiz-lovers, and weirdos: n+1‘s Bookmatch is back! If you make a donation of any amount to n+1 in the month of November, you can take a short, highly entertaining multiple choice quiz (sample Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor

Dorothy Allison, author and force of nature, has died.

Dorothy Allison, the lesbian feminist activist, beacon, poet, parent, and award-winning author of novels like Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller, has died at 75. Allison wrote about a queer, poor South with dynamism and ferocious love. Her books tangoed Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Here's the winner of the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award.

Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2024 Book Award, which recognizes titles originally published in English “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with French culture.” This Read more >

By Literary Hub

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2024 Booker Prize.

Next week, the UK’s most prestigious book prize, the Booker, will announce its 2024 winner. Have you placed your bets yet? An important reminder for those keeping track: do not bet on “Paul” to win the Booker Prize this year. Read more >

By Emily Temple

It’s time to radicalize your book club.

It’s an ugly day, and I’m finding it hard to face what’s next. The clarity is jarring and immense, and the fear, grief, and rage are feeling larger than I can hold. I’m reminding myself continually that I cannot and Read more >

By James Folta

Oliver Sacks! Dante! Queer folktales! 20 new books out today.

November is here! And, of course, for American readers today is also Election Day. For many of us, this is a day of nervous anticipation at best and heart-thumping anxiety at the fear of civil war at worst, and it Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

5,000 more writers have joined the boycott of complicit Israeli cultural institutions.

Last Monday, we published an open letter signed by over a 1000 prominent authors—including Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Annie Ernaux, Arundhati Roy, Peter Carey, Kamila Shamsie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Téa Obreht, Jia Tolentino, Rachel Kushner, Jericho Brown, China Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Suzanne Nossel is stepping down as PEN America CEO.

Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, has announced plans to leave her position. This follows a year of intense criticism over her leadership of the “free speech organization,” which has refused to take a stand in the face of Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Hundreds of writers and entertainment figures sign letter rejecting Israel boycott.

Lionel Shriver, Lee Child, Bernard Henri-Lévy, Herta Müller, Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Bret Stephens, Yossi Klein Halevi, and David Mamet are among the writers who have joined entertainment industry figures Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Scooter Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Meet the real literary witches of the 20th century.

What is a witch? Unruly, ungovernable. A woman, too sexual or strong-willed for the times. Witch was historically an epithet, given to one who knows the body, the earth, the stars, or even her own mind better than polite society Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Roxane Gay! Tom Wolfe! Love in the time of apocalypse! 24 books out in paperback this November!

November is here, and what a wild November it already seems it will be, particularly for those of us in the United States bracing for the aftermath of our presidential election, for there will almost certainly be chaos regardless of Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

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, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary Read more >

By Literary Hub

A brief literary history of the newspaper endorsement.

This week, many readers were shocked to learn that two major papers will not be endorsing a presidential candidate this election cycle—a decision made at the bequest of two billionaires with estate tax in the game. Jeff Bezos, owner of Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Brothers Grimm! Gilmore Girls! Glory Edim! 18 new books out today.

October, incredibly, is nearly over, though the end of the month is often just what we look forward to most: Halloween, Samhain, reflections on the passage of time and life alike. (And, because it’s inescapable this year, the election, though Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

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 translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English Read more >

By Literary Hub