Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic is experiencing a renaissance. This makes more sense than you might think. Read more
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Year: 2025
Aleksei Navalny Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Hisham Matar won the fiction prize, and Sandra Cisneros received the lifetime achievement award … The awards, which were announced Thursday at a ceremony at the New School in New York City, are among the most highly regarded literary prizes in the United States. The winners are chosen by book critics instead of committees made up of authors or academics, which is how most literary prizes are administered. Read more
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‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ is Stephen Graham Jones’ Horror Masterpiece
I said this is Stephen Graham Jones’ masterpiece because the prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex, engaging, and multilayered, but we have seen these elements from him before. Maybe I should say this is the novel in which Jones does all the things he does but even better than before. Basketball legend Michael Jordan had many legendary games; The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is Jones’ version of Jordan dropping 69 points against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Read it. Read more
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Adaptation of Mickey7 in Theaters Now
From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living. Watch trailer
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The 100 Best Irish Books of the 21st Century
A panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – select their favourite Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025. Read more
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies … The filing did not appear to limit the publisher, Flatiron Books, or its parent company, Macmillan, from continuing publication of the memoir. Read more
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Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
Ichikawa’s provocative debut chronicles a disabled woman’s sexual awakening. Shaka, a Japanese woman who lives with myotubular myopathy, a genetic disease whose symptoms include difficulty breathing and muscle weakness, is independently wealthy thanks to an inheritance from her parents. She spends her days taking online university courses and writing pornographic stories for money, which she sends to food banks and shelters for homeless young girls. Read more
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America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness
For an increasing share of the nation’s work force, a mix of soaring rents, low wages and inadequate tenant protections have forced them into a brutal cycle of insecurity in which housing is unaffordable, unstable or entirely out of reach. Read more
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Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” Read more
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Stories by Harper Lee to Appear for the First Time in a New Collection
The book, out on Oct. 21 from Harper, includes eight previously unreleased stories and eight pieces of nonfiction that Lee published in various outlets between 1961 and 2006, including a profile of her friend, the writer Truman Capote, a cornbread recipe and a letter to Oprah Winfrey. Read more
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