Each day, I write the poem of my body. The more I’m able to befriend movement as a means to learn what knowledge lives within, the more interesting my experience becomes. What poem might my body write today? Poems are

Whoa there, weary traveler! Sit awhile and hear my news. Tell me, have you heard of the Emperors of Narsil? The Mandoran Invasion of Brethony? No? What of The Skalbard Coast? Cranholt on the Mersana River? Pharazel Maheris’s “Lives of

The Irish novelist known for nailing Millennial relationship psychosis and speaking up about Palestine told The Guardian this morning that she can no longer sell her novels in the United Kingdom. This news follows Rooney’s much-publicized support for Palestine Action,

How newspapers helped democratize knowledge (because reading isn’t just for the rich). | Lit Hub Politics Is it or isn’t it? James Folta considers how generative AI is poisoning the literary well for everyone. | Lit Hub Technology Oksana Lutsyshyna

Among the gifts bestowed by my long relationship with a wild deer, chronicled in Penelope: A Love Story, (Crown) being published October 13, was an opening of the spirit, a freedom from human/animal boundaries. This seems to be recognized by

Vauhini Vara, who has for years been investigating the impact of AI on writing, published a piece in The Atlantic over the weekend claiming that the winner of The Caine Prize used AI to write his story. Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe

The Author is facing the sea, his cheeks orange from the lowering sun. There’s Maja, walking towards him, from behind, tentative, yet her right arm is reaching for him, reaching around him. No sound except the waves, they break against

Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nonfiction and autofiction have become, alongside poetry, the leading genres of contemporary Ukrainian literature. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, autobiographical approaches and autofiction help emphasize the immediacy of events,

New Circana BookScan data for 2026 shows readers reaching for emotional certainty, escapism, and stories with a clear payoff — with backlist titles holding their own against new releases.

Part crime novel, part logic puzzle, part sudoku — Murdoku has sold 160,000 copies in Italy alone and spawned a new publishing genre that turns reading into a collective game.

The Empyrean author's short-story collection became an instant New York Times bestseller and now holds Goodreads' 'Most Read Books this Week' crown, with over a quarter-million reader rankings.

Lawhon's novel about the legendary Irish pirate Grace O'Malley takes the retailer's top honor, with booksellers praising it as a favorite across company book clubs.

New industry data shows the US audiobook market hit $2.43 billion in 2025 with 26% annual growth projected, while indie bookstores stage an unlikely comeback and BookTok drives 59 million print sales.

Bringing the New York School to middle school: Why Frank O’Hara is the perfect way to introduce poetry to tweens. | Lit Hub Criticism Adam Johnson talks to Amitav Ghosh about The Wayfinder, the many ways to tell a single

I have covered many wars in the past but nothing—absolutely nothing—prepared me for the brutality, cruelty, and the sheer savagery of Israel’s war in Gaza. I wasn’t alone. Veteran colleagues at Al Jazeera—battle-hardened reporters who had walked the ruins of

Smolensk, Russia, February 1837 and February 1860 Belatedly, John’s last words reached Adelaide. He had been dead for a fortnight, buried for ten days. She was not at his deathbed, having been banished from their marriage bed for decades; nor

As a kid, I got easily spooked. We lived on the edge of a creaking, bubbling, swampy-dark woods; at night, my mom sang “The Unquiet Grave,” a haunting folksong where a young woman begs her dead lover to speak to

The Center For Fiction welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son) to The Center for Fiction this fall to celebrate the release of his new novel, The Wayfinder. This must-read novel urges us to consider how struggles

When I taught poetry, I always arrived with pencils, pieces of paper, and a printed out poem by Frank O’Hara. If my students, middle schoolers forced to cram into libraries and over-filled classrooms, had heard of any poets before, O’Hara

Elizabeth Zott, the feisty 1960s-era chemist in Bonnie Garmus’ mega-selling first novel Lessons in Chemistry, captivated readers with her early feminist point of view and transformative approach to hosting a TV cooking series. Batter Gray, an aspiring poet from Yuba

Yiyun Li, Bonnie Garmus, M. John Harrison, Will Maclean, and so many more apt and intelligent writers are releasing novels today. Adam Grant, Lauren Michele Jackson, and Wendy S. Walters all number among the plentiful nonfiction authors also releasing new

Transmigrating into a Novel, the Villain's Entire Family Dotes on Me

Samantha’s all grown up, and American Girl books are entering a new era. | Lit Hub Criticism How British media legitimized J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: “We are rendered hostile abstractions in a contradictory narrative: Trans people are not real, only our