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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1968, John Steinbeck dies. These are 50 of 2024’s best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists In case you need something to do between now and the new year, these are our […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1899, German-born British bookseller and collector Bernard Quaritch, who in 40 years of collecting acquired six separate copies of the Gutenberg Bible, dies. We know you don’t want to read every best books of 2024 list, so Emily Temple read them all for you. | […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1784, Samuel Johnson dies. The Beatles breaking up: on the protracted end of a band that transformed rock and roll forever. | Lit Hub Music “Something will enrage you and something will haunt you. And something will strike you as beautiful and true.” Derek Mong […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey are published by T. C. Newby in a 3-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell. The professionals weigh in: here are the best book covers of the year, according to […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s been another long year, and ending it with a book club pick sounds like a pretty good choice. Especially since these December book club picks offer a wide range of options, from genre to mood. The book […]
TODAY: In 43 BCE, Roman philosopher, orator, lawyer, and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero is executed by soldiers of The Second Triumvirate. Eliza Moss on what novelists can learn from actors about self-expression. | Lit Hub Craft Michael Palma on why Dante’s Divine Comedy is more relevant than ever: “It is no wonder that the Internet abounds […]
TODAY: In 1933, U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene. Susan Abulhawa remembers Refaat Alareer a year after he was killed by Israeli forces: “I believe some part of him knew what was to come. Still, he was planning for things ‘after the genocide stops.’” | […]
