Twenty Canadian authors have withdraw their books and labor from the Scotiabank Giller Prize until it severs its ties to companies “complicit in Israel’s ongoing occupation, displacement and murder of Palestinians.” In a letter to the Giller foundation published earlier Read more >
The Dolphin Hotel, a former hitching post for Jane Austen herself, is set to be converted into student dorms. The 500 year old space is believed to be the oldest inn in Southampton. Ms. Austen made several appearances there, and Read more >
The Avery Review, an architecture journal based at Columbia University “dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media,” is launching a new project called the Gaza Pages, a space to publish writing “by Gazan writers about Gaza, about Read more >
Ah, another Tuesday! For my American readers, it’s the weekend after Independence Day, and—whether or not you grilled things, took place in a corybantic hot-dog-eating contest, watched legal and illegal fireworks compete instead, fell into a food coma, protested the Read more >
A new study out of USC compared comedy writing by humans to comedy writing generated by ChatGPT, and found that “ChatGPT can produce written humor at a quality that exceeds laypeople’s abilities and equals some professional comedy writers.” But their Read more >
Elsewhere this June, certain readers were ripping bodices in celebration of smut—that saucier end of the romance novel spectrum. But over here at Lit Hub, we’re girding our loins. Naturally, we know there’s a time and a place for bulging Read more >
Photo by Elena Ternovaja The American man who attacked writer Salman Rushdie with a knife in 2022 rejected a plea deal yesterday. The deal offered to Hadi Matar would have reduced the number of years he would spend behind bars, Read more >
What is the state of cultural criticism today? This summer, The Yale Review dedicated an entire issue to unpacking this very question. After editors conceded that “we live in a moment when the closing of many newspapers and magazines means Read more >
July has arrived, and, for American readers, this means that the Fourth of July is just around the corner. Amidst the fireworks and grilled delights (and at-times-questionable displays of patriotism), the holiday can be an unexpectedly good opportunity to catch Read more >
Need something good (and weird) to watch tonight? Novelist, noted film buff, and general haver-of-good-taste Rachel Kushner has put together a list of her favorite films for Galerie, a new online film club with offerings curated by a variety of Read more >
What’s the deal with brats this summer? June has brought us Brat the novel, Brat the album, and Brats the documentary. We at Lit Hub have decided this cannot be a coincidence. And to understand this phenomenon, we must consider Read more >
There’s been a lot of global focus recently on what governments can and cannot do, what they should or should not provide. Some of that certainly comes with the multi-election territory this year—elections in the US, the UK, and France Read more >
You can read Bradford Morrow on Poe’s Tamerlane here. Auctions are unpredictable beasts. If you approach them thinking you know how they will behave, you do so naively. Some lots sell far higher than expected, others much lower, and there’s Read more >
As the saying goes, you know you’ve fucked up when the librarians start protesting—and while New York City makes a sport out of hating its mayors, current problematic mayor Eric Adams really stepped in it when he announced cuts to Read more >
July is here! And, as ever, that means (amongst other things) that there are heaps of new books to look forward to. Today, we’re focusing on books newly being released in paperback this month. And there are many, many to Read more >
June, incredibly, is almost at an end, and, for many of us it’s been a month of many things, from the beauty of Pride Month and the recognition of Juneteenth to the sweltering weather of heat waves around the world Read more >
In evergreen news, it seems that Hollywood has gotten its hooks into yet another beloved literary property. Taika Waititi, of Thor/Our Flag Means Death/Reservation Dogs-etc., is slated to direct the film adaptation of Percival Everett’s latest bit of wizardry: the James.">Read more >
Earlier this month, the fashion house Miu Miu staged a marketing event at an unlikely catwalk: Casa Magazines. This was part and parcel of a recurring pop-up called ‘Summer Reads,’ at which fans of the brand can line up to Read more >
Since September 2023, the book criticism working group of the Freelance Solidarity Project (a union of digital media workers, organizing to raise labor standards across the industry) has been collecting data on freelance rates. Its findings, published earlier this month, Read more >
This week, the ex-teen heart-throb, ur-“Nice Guy,” and award-winning travel writer(!) Andrew McCarthy made his documentary debut at the TriBeCa film festival. Brats—the film in question, now on Hulu—documents the rise and fall of the enfants terribles who defined the Read more >
