Some fear that the raft of cancellations at this moment of war and tragedy is limiting opportunities to foster dialogue and greater understanding. Read more
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Movie Released
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Watch trailer
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Literary Fiction is Dead, Long Live Literary Fiction!
As an English professor, I’m often asked, “What do you like to read?” Sometimes I answer, “Literary fiction.” By that phrase, I mean fiction that privileges art over entertainment. I did not know until recently that literary fiction—the phrase, not what it stands for—grew up with me. We’re about the same age. And while I hope I’m only midway through my life, literary fiction might be dead. More precisely, what might have died is literary fiction as a meaningful category in publishing and bookselling. Read more
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On the Ending of a Literary Journal
John Freeman Says Goodbye to Freeman’s. Read more
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The Essential Vladimir Nabokov
Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. Read more
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The 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time
The Hollywood Reporter’s list of must-read tomes — determined by a jury of more than 300 Hollywood heavyweights including Steven Spielberg, David Zaslav, Liza Minnelli and Ava DuVernay — proves there’s one topic the supposedly reading-averse industry can’t get enough of: itself. Read more
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Louise Glück, Nobel-Winning Poet Who Explored Trauma and Loss, Dies at 80
Louise Glück, an American poet whose searing, deeply personal work, often filtered through themes of classical mythology, religion and the natural world, won her practically every honor available, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and, in 2020, the Nobel Prize for Literature, died on Friday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 80. Read more
The Forgotten Poet at the Center of San Francisco’s Longest Obscenity Trial
Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.” Read more
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Winners of the Kirkus Prize Announced
The Kirkus Prize, a leading literary award, has been awarded this year to authors Ariel Aberg-Riger, Héctor Tobar and James McBride. The prize selects winners in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and young reader’s literature from a pool of nearly 11,000 authors whose books appeared in Kirkus Reviews, the influential journal known for starred prepublication reviews. Read more
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John le Carré Documentary is Coming Soon
Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of former British spy David Cornwell — better known as John le Carré, author of such classic espionage novels as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Constant Gardener. Watch trailer
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