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For the past hundred years, the coveted Guggenheim fellowship has granted funds “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form.” Today, the Guggenheim Foundation announced its class of 2026. Given resources to work under the “freest possible conditions,” the Guggenheim fellow is typically at the […]
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We’re ten days into the 30th National Poetry Month—perhaps you’ve seen our poem-of-the-day feature—and it’s gotten me into a lyrical mood. In that vein, I picked up and became instantly enraptured by John Berger’s And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, an unclassifiable amalgam of essay, memoir, and devotional that’s been catching my breath on […]
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1935, Anna Katharine Green, “mother of the detective novel,” dies. On physics, poetry, and how humans “are producing our reality through the stories we choose to tell and the metaphors that we use to narrate them.” | Lit Hub Criticism How a pulp magazine built American science […]
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder Get This Deal $2.99 The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar Get This Deal $1.99 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Get This Deal $1.99 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Get This Deal $1.99 The City of Brass by […]
The eight winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes literary achievement and promise in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an unrestricted grant of $175,000. This year’s winners are: FICTIONGwendoline Riley (United Kingdom)Adam Ehrlich Sachs (United […]
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures Has Dropped At first, I thought the deep voice narrating the trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures was just the generic Hollywood narrator guy. But as the trailer continued, I […]
TODAY: In 1928, the fourth and final section of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury takes place. Michael Edison Hayden traces the origins of white supremacy group VDARE and explores how extremism can invade small town American. | Lit Hub Politics “Marriage is, to my mind, the ability to contain two conflicting narratives and hold […]
