Janet Phillips on the iconic little sister in J.D. Salinger’s seminal coming-of-age tale Maybe every sixteen-year-old boy needs a smart sister like Phoebe Caulfield. Wise film critic, reader, writer of detective stories, skater and mean dancer, she is a very accomplished ten-year-old girl and the only character The Catcher in the Rye Who seems to
Oh, Bret Easton Ellis. You are an old lightning rod. Gen literary brat pack And the portrayal of corrupt superficial youth is shifting his talents to television. And with whose help? Our favorite Chaos agent, Ryan Murphy. The Shards is a haute drama slasher series based on Alice 2023 novel. set against The vivid backdrop
George Orwell famously wrote that there is a constant struggle to see what is right in front of one’s nose. This may be truer than ever. These days we barely register things that seemed downright bizarre 20 years ago – like people staring at their phones at a busy intersection. The unnatural begins to seem
Author and poet Rebecca Perry has won the 2026 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for May We Feed the King, which has been praised as a “delicious and dreamlike story”. Selected from a shortlist of six novellas, May We Feed the King is the story of a present-day curator whose job it is to decorate rooms
Rebecca Yaros has announced her fourth addition to the mega-bestselling Empyrean series Instagram. the title of the book is threshing day And will be available on 29th September this year. threshing day However, there is something slightly different from the other books in the series. This is not a sequel to the third book, onyx
Nephi Craig’s mother is White Mountain Apache and his father is Dene Navajo. He grew up on both reservations. Ari Carter Craig/Penguin Random House hide caption toggle caption Ari Carter Craig/Penguin Random House Nephi Craig, founder of Native American Culinary AssociationHe credits teaching him about eating, cooking and indigenous food with saving his life. Craig
lAbout a week after his wife’s sudden death, a grieving man opens his front door to a giant crow which pulls him into its wing and tells him: “I’m not leaving until you need me.” She is still in shock and faces the problem of raising her two young sons alone. Bird, who has been
TeaRomance novelist Emily Henry’s star has risen so fast that it’s hard to remember when her breakout book—the sparky literary love-fest read the beach-Recently released in 2020. Since then, new Emily Henry romance novels have come out at a shocking rate, and film adaptation rights have been snapped up almost as quickly. The success of
Welcome to a new entry in an ongoing series exploring popular YA genres, tropes, and themes, as seen through the eyes of those who write them. Each guest piece provides insight on a topic that is beloved — or deserves more attention — in the YA world, including hallmarks, highlights, and books that exemplify the
“I like it when someone is excited about something. It’s nice.” This first appeared in Lit Hub literary history Newsletter—Sign up here. Article continues after ad In the spring of 1939, a J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, she didn’t pay anything overall, but still signed up for the class