In 2018 Daisy Johnson was the youngest author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her debut novel Everything Under, a gender-fluid reimagining of the Oedipus myth involving canal boat communities and their complex family dynamics, as well as a strange monster hidden in the depths. Earlier, his short story collection Fen was critically
My heart arrester The hyperfixation continues – which is no surprise, as the final book and movie will be out in just a few weeks. To be honest, my reading lately has mostly been in the fanfiction realm, but my passion led me to pick up a few books in June. was the first i
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Frederick Douglass’s great speech “What’s the Fourth of July for a slave?” The speech, delivered before a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852, reflected the contrasts that remain in the nation’s Fourth of July celebrations, then and to this day. The nation’s founding documents may have declared that “all men
“Not many people these days appreciate that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very different thing to what we have now. There are almost no similarities. Apart from questions of legality, health and safety, etc., there would be no point in revisiting the vast majority
The Windham-Campbell Awards Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Award The winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Article continues after ad Christina Anderson, recipient of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Award for Drama, talks to Michael Kelleher about Wallace Shawn’s seminal, strange, and recently revived 1990 monologue
Soledad Acosta de Samper spoke English, traveled the world, wrote every day, and saved the newspaper clippings in which her novels appeared to transform them into albums. She married out of love, had four daughters – one of them, a nun and a poet, published an edition of Novena de Aguinaldos It is sung during
It’s time to stream some criminal adaptations this July! While that’s quiet compared to what it should be based on the huge wave of adaptations we’re currently riding, I still got two new series for you, an action-packed mystery film and a backlist film adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Before I go on, here
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. PEN America announces its 2026 Emerging Voices and Advisors Looking at the Fellows and Mentors selected for this year Emerging Voices Fellowship Feels like looking into the future. I say this because I’m sure that
Susan Wiggs recommends Lisa Wingate, Ellen Marie Wiseman, Megan Church and others The “wayward girl” in fiction – and unfortunately, in reality – is defined less by her own actions and more by a society committed to getting her “right.” “Promiscuousness” is usually a symptom of being too poor, too outspoken, or simply getting in