If you love or have ever loved a literary magazine, I bring glad tidings. This week heralds a new appreciation rite for the ...

After a decade of Donald Trump’s chaos and cruelty, we might ask how literary fiction is responding. Readers, for their part, flocked to journalistic and historical explainers in Trump 1.0, ...

When I first started seeing coverage of what seemed like a deranged plan from the Trump administration to take over Greenland ...

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In September, the month of Big Books, it was all about the art ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Today is International Translation Day. The date ...

For as long as people have had children, some groups and individuals have had their procreation encouraged, subsidized, even ...

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