I have covered many wars in the past but nothing—absolutely nothing—prepared me for the brutality, cruelty, and the sheer ...

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated ...

Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and ...

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology ...

The first summer after my daughter died, I received an email invitation to give a keynote address the next spring. I didn’t ...

Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of ...

While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it ...

For years, mainstream media have parroted the language of their own governments, and that of lsrael, with little critical ...

Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What ...

Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise ...

On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2026 class of MacArthur Fellows: 20 individuals who demonstrate ...