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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 […]
The best way I can describe Meredith Gran’s recently released video game Perfect Tides: Station to Station—or at least the best way I can describe it to people who read contemporary literature—is that it feels like a version Elif Batuman’s novels The Idiot and Either/Or that you can step inside of. Batuman’s novels offer the […]
In further news of book people showing up for each other, and for the rest of us, a dedicated group of publishing and culture workers has organized an auction to raise funds in support of communities terrorized by ICE and DHS. Lots of books, Zoom meetings, and art will be available for bidding in the Publishing […]
From Goodnight Moon to AI Slop. In 2025, we were surviving, if perhaps not always thriving. We sang along to “Golden” in the grocery store and hung Labubus from our bags. We reheated nachos. We saw Sinners in multiple formats and got our first American pope. We elected Zohran Mamdani. We did not learn about […]
George Plimpton, impresario founder of The Paris Review, has a literary legacy that keeps on giving. Now, fans of the man can peep into his old townhouse. Otherwise known as the OG offices of America’s OG literary magazine. The storied casa listed in April for a cool $5.25 million. But times are hard—as anyone in […]
R.F. Kuang, the bestselling novelist behind Katabasis, Yellowface, and Babel, is taking a stand with the BDS movement. Citing a call from the organizers of the Palestinian BDS (or, Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) National Committee, the popular author withdrew from a slated appearance at the upcoming Emirates Airline Festival of Literature yesterday. Though she’d planned […]
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Are You a Reader or a Book Consumer? This piece from Kathleen Schmidt about literary criticism vs book consumerism really hits on some things I’m thinking about lately. Schmidt, a longtime publicist, focuses her critique […]
Settle into Sunday with the stories Book Riot readers were most interested in this week. The 25 Best Dystopian Novels of All Time Do you remember your first dystopian book? My sixth grade teacher read The Giver aloud to my class over the course of a week or two, and I’ve spent the last thirty years trying […]
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July 11, 2025, 12:50pm At a ceremony on Thursday night, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars was awarded the second annual Inside Literary Prize, the first-ever US-based literary award to be judged by currently incarcerated people. Readers from 15 prisons across 6 states and territories selected Adjei-Brenyah’s novel from a shortlist of four. “There is no […]
