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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1929, Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a London gallery on grounds of indecency. Clear room on your bookshelves! Here are the 249 books we’re anticipating coming out in the second half of 2025. | Lit […]
TODAY: In 1984, Lillian Hellman dies. Rebecca Morgan Frank highlights seven new poetry collections publishing in July, including work from James Cagney, Marissa Davis, and Cassandra Whitaker. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Article continues after advertisement Natalie Zutter recommends the best speculative summer reads coming out in July, featuring defracted universes, memory divers, and dark […]
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]
First off, I finished Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab for a Book Riot Podcast discussion with Rebecca Schinsky and Vanessa Diaz. This was my first V.E. Schwab book, and I really enjoyed it! It lived up to the “toxic lesbian vampires” pitch, which was all I needed. I also had […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1947, Kenneth Arnold claims to have seen nine flying saucers near Mount Rainier, Washington, driving enthusiasm for science fiction literature. What The Great Gatsby’s “glittering, gin-soaked indictment of how wealth, class, and social polish warp the distribution of power” can tell us about the absurd fiction […]
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship. The guide to 56 tasks you can take to end book […]
TODAY: In 1851, Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is published in the Anti-Slavery Bugle. Lee Cole recalls being a working class writer attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class perspectives in our literary institutions. | Lit Hub Craft “Book ban cases have ramped up in recent years, and judges […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1986, Jorge Luis Borges dies. Susan Gubar examines the life and work of Marianne Moore, America’s unexpected celebrity poet. | Lit Hub Biography Don’t have time to read every summer reading list? Emily Temple did it for you. Here’s our ultimate summer reading list. | […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1888, Fernando Pessoa is born. “We believe Lapham’s Quarterly should live on because, to quote Marilynne Robinson, a writer Lewis was proud to have published, ‘This country is in a state of bewilderment that cries out for good history.’” Donovan Hohn remembers Lewis H. Lapham […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1943, Nikki Giovanni is born. Evelyn McDonnell on the ethics of Notes to John, commercial exploitation, and the selling of Joan Didion’s privacy. | Lit Hub Criticism “Ants deserve more poems.” Hannah Brooks-Motl praises poetry about insects by John Clare, William Blake, David Seung, and […]
