One of the most prestigious awards given to comics, the 2026 Eisner Awards were presented at San Diego Comic Con last weekend. They are given to comics published in the United States in the previous year, although the creators themselves are not required to be American. The award began in 1988 and is named after
I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s. We knew gender discrimination was a problem—but we were to solve it. Article continues after ad My father, who was the head of our family, encouraged me to become a doctor. I was the eldest and golden
Today’s Special Book Deal $1.99 cursed daughters By Oyinkan Braithwaite GET THIS DEAL $3.99 Born by Jeff VanderMeer GET THIS DEAL $1.99 what a fun era it is by kelly reed GET THIS DEAL $1.99 little fires everywhere By Celeste Ng GET THIS DEAL $2.99 we were witches by ariel gore GET THIS DEAL $2.99
The best of literary internet Today: 1928, Radclyffe Hall’s novel well of loneliness is published. D/Anne Leontas, Sara Novick, Chetla Sebree, and Maria Edelman discuss the rejected class system of the literary word. | Lit Hub in conversation That time Johnny Cash almost started a riot in California’s most notorious prison. | lit hub music
“I was struck by the thought that perhaps I had always missed the very thing that made poetry poetry.” This first appeared in Lit Hub literary history Newsletter-Sign up here. Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” “has confused audiences from the beginning,” has written David Orr. In the spring of 1915, Frost
“I think that’s a very important thing: to give a man some hope in prison, to give a man some incentive to be a better citizen while he’s in there and if he’s a better citizen while he’s in there, he’ll come out a better citizen.”-Johnny Cash, testifying before the House Committee on the Judiciary,
TeaAI ethicist Eleanor Dredge believes that in order to move forward with artificial intelligence, humans need to recognize the “humanity” of AI. He means that while we often talk about AI as if it were some mysterious, formless thing, it is the product of hours of human labor in silicon and quartz mines, microchip factories,
TeaThere is a growing literature of maternal flight: novels about women who abandon not only their husbands but also their children. In the real world, men are more often fugitives; The father’s relation to family life is considered incidental, while motherhood is revered as an internal state. This means that women who “un-mother” themselves are
NPR’s Ayesha Rasco spoke with the comic creating team behind the breakout new Batman: Absolute Batman. Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta share how this alternate reality rewrites the Batman character.