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Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction
for decades, i have been concerned that the internet was being built around non-fiction, so i built something to show how we could celebrate great fiction on the web. i started wit…
Overseas sales of translated Korean literature hit 1.2 mln copies in 2025
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- Overseas sales of translated works of Korean literature has top...…
“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 pm ET: The Comic Climax of Dostoyevsky's "Demons"
A storm of misunderstandings fuels official paranoia, followed by real conspiracy…
Ulster University hosts Jaipur Literature Festival in Belfast
Ulster University hosts Jaipur Literature Festival in Belfast…
Kota Tegal dan Jejak Panjang Sastra: Ekosistem Budaya Pesisir yang Melahirkan Sastrawan Nasional
Pemkot Tegal berkomitmen dukung ruang kreatif sastra. Wakil Wali Kota apresiasi dedikasi 40 tahun bersastra Suriali Abdi Kustomo di Balai Budaya DKT.…
Telugu Mahotsavam begins with a celebration of literature and heritage
Join the Telugu Mahotsavam in Vijayawada to celebrate and preserve the rich heritage of the Telugu language and culture.…
The 10 best places to visit in England for literature lovers
Thank you, Christopher Nolan
— Homer, probably…
Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Bulwark Book Club for August: Mark Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson”
Send in your questions to Mona Charen and Bill Kristol for the August book club.…
New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A...
New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A Tradcath Wedding . “He pronounced the word ‘nuptial’ as noopt-see-all . If that’s correct, never tell me.”…
‘Children of Blood and Bone’ author exposes shocking rift with actress Amandla Stenberg, refuses to watch film
Stenberg plays the main character in the film adaptation which is set to premiere next year.…
Crime, cats and feminine rage: The new books to read this week
From a Grisham-tier legal thriller to an engaging history on cats in Australia, there’s something for everyone in this week’s top new fiction and non-fiction releases.…
Booked Off—Why Literary Travel Is Surging In 2026
Reading and travel are intrinsically linked but book travel is on the up—where people choose destinations explicitly to read, with other people, in search of community.…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s American Horror Story
The author wrote a tale that challenged the nation’s founding myths. Then it disappeared.…
Hartley, not Orwell, foresaw today's tyranny
Nigerian author accuses hospital of stalling review into her son's death
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 21-month old son died in a Lagos hospital, which she says is trying to stop an inquest into the circumstances of his death.…
The Great Books Are for Everybody
An unlikely champion of the canon urges readers not to think of the books as “belonging” to conservatives.…
Orwell the Fortune Teller
"The invasion of literature by politics was bound to happen," wrote George Orwell in his 1948 essay, "Writers and Leviathan," because "we have developed . . . an awareness of the e…
Saving Camp of the Saints
Ethan Rundell discusses The Camp of the Saints, its Amazon de-listing, and the pretense of free speech. The post Saving Camp of the Saints appeared first on The American Conservati…
When America Declared Itself
The celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary is now very nearly upon us, as the signal date of July 4th approaches. Of course, to be technical about it, and as many Americans …
The Death of the Reader
AI has already changed writing. Now the technology is changing what it means to read.…
Kevin Young wins the Griffin Poetry Prize for his ‘melancholic and haunting’ Night Watch
Young is a Harvard-educated Nebraskan who is poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine and a New York University professor…
Teacher says bestselling author Jack Carr inspired students to embrace patriotism amid values debate
Teacher Kelly McGinnis told Fox News Digital that Jack Carr's novels sparked patriotism among his Mississippi students, who had stopped standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.…
What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common?
Down the street, my coffee shop’s windows glowed with the baleful warmth of an Edward Hopper painting. This was where I liked the write—a third place, before dawn, when the city wa…
A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction
As a teenager in my hometown of Newport, New Hampshire, with a population of around 6,000 people, weekend nights began by driving through town. My friends and I would pile into a c…
Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg…
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought
In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abol…
Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out
The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’…
Plagiarism row in Malayalam literary scene over plot similarities in K. R Meera’s ‘Kalachi’ and Haritha Savithri’s ‘Zin’
A plagiarism controversy erupts in Malayalam literature over plot similarities between K. R Meera's 'Kalachi' and Haritha Savithri's 'Zin'.…
Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam review – an electric debut set on Manchester’s Curry Mile
Written in breathless multilingual prose, this coming-of-age meets state-of-the-nation novel is an incredible literary performance…
What to read next: Our verdict on the week’s biggest new releases
From a Booker winner and a cartel epic to a bird book that blew our minds, our critics cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.…
Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Want to Read?
I recently created a simple test, which convinced me that the answer is no.…
Sami Rohr Prize 2026 shortlist highlights family survival and Jewish history
The annual award — which alternates each year between works of fiction and nonfiction and which honors emerging Jewish writers — is considered one of the most prominent awards in J…
The Plight of the Radical’s Children
A new novel by Harriet Clark, the daughter of a jailed revolutionary, shows that rigid ideology is no match for the humanizing presence of a child.…
What Is Europe? | Interview: Roderick Beaton
History is full of surprises.…
A fulsome portrait of an untameable spirit
“Emily — that free, wild, untameable spirit, never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home.” So wrote Elizabeth Gaskell of Emily Bronte in her pioneer…
Seven Books You’ll Never Outgrow
Some stories are worth revisiting at every stage of life.…
The Scariest Monster on Broadway
A new play about Roald Dahl and his anti-Jewish prejudice captures uncomfortable truths.…
India’s scientific knowledge predates Persia, brought West out of Stone Age: Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor
J&K L-G Manoj Sinha emphasises India’s historical contributions to science and culture at the Kashmir Literature Festival.…
‘Agree to disagree’: Festival gave ‘silenced’ writers a voice
I have just spent some days at the Sydney Writers’ Festival – and I am more convinced than ever that these face-to-face forums are important.…
Lit Hub Weekly: May 25 – 29, 2026
Spend your summer reading with Lit Hub! Welcome to the Best of the Best Books reading challenge, where you’ll have the chance to meet your reading goals, win prizes, and prove you’…
What a 98-Year Old Children's Book Teaches Us About AI
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of using fiction as a lens through which to view the world – some might say, to my detriment. But we do not listen to thos…
Italian author Erri De Luca: ‘I am prepared to lose everything’ for backing Israel
Italian author Erri De Luca said he is prepared to lose everything for his convictions as he spoke about Israel, Hebrew, and Zionism.…
David Szalay wonders whether AI could write hockey smut
The Booker Prize winner sat down at the Sydney Writers' Festival to ponder the threat of AI to fiction, share some recommendations and consider whether his book was really about ma…
The nine books our critics couldn't put down in May
Sweet teen love, gay football stars, alien abductions and a murderous PhD student bent on revenge — this month's best new releases have it all.…
New Show: "Get Lit With Matt and Brad," Monday, June 1, 4:30 ET
A show re-introducing the stories we've buried, as the clickhole era mercifully crawls to an end…
Authoritarian Transformation in Istanbul’s Old City
Two new books seek to capture the changing reality of Turkey and the world.…
Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy...
Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy in which “every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Jest [is replaced] with ‘Jeff’ while preserving punc…
A Book I Wish I’d Read at 22
I’m not alone in feeling regret over not having found the right book at just the right time.…
The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster
“Her laugh is as bright as zinc” and other bad metaphors…
‘Flybrary’ to come up soon at Mysuru airport
A ‘Flybrary’, which is expected to provide travellers access to a variety of books while waiting for their flights, is soon expected to come up at Mysuru airport.…
Drawn from both real and imagined lives, these four graphic novels delight the mind and eye equally
Featuring recent titles from Tillie Walden, Joe Ollman, Jon Claytor and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas…
All American Patriotism is a literary home-cooked meal for the American soul
If an American pride, cross-country summer road trip in a 1996 Ford Windstar could be a novel, it would be All American Patriotism.…
Alice Rohrwacher to Direct Feature Film Adaptation of Italo Calvino Classic ‘The Baron in the Trees’
Alice Rohrwacher is set to direct a feature film adaptation of Italo Calvino's classic coming-of-age novel 'The Baron in the Trees.'…
Melissa Febos, Geoff Dyer, Beyoncé… Here are 25 books out in paperback this June.
Summer is officially here, and as the weather warms and our dreams of escapes to elsewhere begin seeming a bit more possible, I’m here to suggest new books to accompany you into Ju…
StoryScope: Investigating Idiosyncrasies in AI Fiction
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in t…
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna Labba…
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 30
The Bestsellers Lists are compiled by The Globe and Mail from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData…
Bashir Badr: A poet of the masses
Badr used everyday language to great effect, ensuring that his verses spoke directly to the listener. | India News…