Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation announced Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall as the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which seeks to reward books that represent the legendary writer’s literary, moral, and aesthetic ideals… Read more
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Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. Watch trailer
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While obviously appealing to word nerds and writers, Fatsis’s narrative is more broadly relevant to anyone who speaks, reads, and writes in American English. It provides a thorough, thoughtful history of dictionaries and the language they both shape and record, while championing the dictionary’s continued relevance in the 21st century. Lively, well-researched, and often entertaining, Unabridged is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding how language evolves. Read more
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Rosie Grant’s book compiles recipes so beloved, they were written in stone — on their makers’ final resting places. Read more
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Hagfish is a small press focused on out-of-print and obscure books by women. But it’s flexible on all of those things. Read more
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George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, all-to-believable authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your Negro), working in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, seamlessly interweaves historical clips, readings from Orwell’s diary, cinematic references, and dynamic modern day footage to craft not only a definitive portrait of the writer himself, but an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophetic his work has become. Watch trailer
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On Wednesday, Oct. 8, Kirkus Reviews, the leading pre-publication journal of book reviews in the United States, revealed the literary works that took home the ultimate prize during a ceremony in New York City. The annual awards recognize the best releases in fiction, nonfiction and young adults’ literature, with each winner receiving a $50,000 prize. Read more
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Announcing the prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, the Nobel Committee praised Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Read more
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AIR MAIL has announced the winners of its two 2025 Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes: Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection (NYRB 2025), for fiction and Meghan Daum, author of The Catastrophe Hour (Notting Hill Editions 2025), for reportage. Read more
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Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,” coined by the prolific technology critic and author Cory Doctorow, is one of these. Doctorow came up with the phrase, in 2022, to describe how all the digital services that increasingly dominated our daily lives seemed to be getting worse at the same time. Read more
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