“Richard, she can’t stop looking at you,” my mother said with a big silly smile. Article continues after ad After only three months, my father came back into my life. And it was all because of the N-word. “I can’t stop looking at her either,” he said. My face became warm with happiness. I pressed
TeaHere in hell there is a special place reserved for those doctors who trade their authority, status and medical training to make money out of public fear and gullibility. Every time I scroll past a qualified therapist promoting elixirs promising youthful vigor, cellulite-free thighs or a gut microbiome makeover, I want to puke their insidious
Today’s literary headlines include a surprisingly heart-touching copyright claim involving the Peanuts gang, a new chatbot feature for Google Play Books, and more. A Copyright Claim We Can All Feel Good About As you probably know, Late Show with Stephen Colbert It was canceled by CBS, claiming that “purely a financial decision“It had nothing to
Today, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundationwhich “celebrates writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to promote peace,” announced the finalists for its 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (for books published in 2025). Each winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize, and the first runner-up will receive a $5,000 cash prize. Here are
Writing in line with Cixous’s demands, Magalleque also uses these revelations to help understand her life, deftly moving the reader between her distant past and her present, personal encounters with desire, miscarriage, birth, ambition. She describes her grandmother’s cooking and self-deception, reconstructing the violence of her own labor and delivery. Much of the world his
Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian scholar famous for his approach to history that focused on the group of humanity that existed outside the political and social elites of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, died on Wednesday in Bologna. He was 87 years old. His death was announced by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he
If you felt a disturbance in the force earlier this week, it was probably just the Book Riot editorial team making both literal and spiritual exclamation points about it. news Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel is a World War II spy story. due out March 9, 2027 (bust that preorder button), Miss Lambert steps
Amy Griffin, author of the memoir “The Tale,” filed a lawsuit Monday saying a childhood classmate defamed her by alleging she appropriated the classmate’s experience of sexual abuse and presented it as her own in the book. Ms. Griffin’s lawsuit, which was filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada, accused Classmate of falsely
Today: In 1938, T.H. White’s sword in the stone is published. Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad fathers. | Lit Hub Craft Aaron Boehmer considers the future of ethnic studies and academia to be in crisis: “Although no amount of protests, demonstrations, or organizing can revive
AT33, French author Edouard Louis has already seen all seven of his slim novels translated into English. In his breakout debut, The End of Eddy (2017), and then in Change (2024), he wrote about the bullied gay son of a promising kid from a poor family who becomes a bestselling author. Several of his other