March 25, 2025, 12:30pm In 2024, Haymarket Books, together with the Mellon Basis, launched a brand new fellowship aimed toward supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the prison authorized system: The Writing Freedom Fellowship. At the moment, they’ve introduced their second annual cohort of fellows, twenty writers whose work explores “themes starting from grief and habit […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1920, Federico García Lorca’s first play, The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, is poorly obtained at its premiere in Madrid. Janet Todd explores the origins and enduring attraction of Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy. | Lit Hub Criticism “We won’t take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” […]

March 18, 2025, 12:54pm Picture from the New York Public Libraries Digital Collections The hogmen and shock troops of the Trump-Musk administration have gone after one other important and beloved mainstay of public life: libraries. Trump signed a broad government order final Friday that places libraries in existential hazard by dismantling the Institute of Museum […]

March 14, 2025, 2:05pm Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless Folks: A Cautionary Story of Energy, Greed, and Misplaced Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams got here out just a few days in the past, and is already making an enormous splash. The e book is one insider’s take a look at Fb/Meta, and the way tech fats cats like […]

March 10, 2025, 5:04pm [As news broke last Friday of the Trump administration’s plan to revoke $400 million dollars of research funding to Columbia University, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus posted the following to a faculty list serve there. It has been lightly edited for publication here.] * Permit me to deal with a […]

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Welcome to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Insanity bracket:The Greatest Villains in Literature. Article continues after commercial Everybody loves an excellent villain—at the least once they’re safely fictional—however which literary villains are the finest? And which one deserves the title of the Best Literary Villain Of All Time? We want your assist to determine. […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1964, Grace Metalious, writer of the novel Peyton Place, dies.  “The nation’s founding doc is nothing if not an try to persuade the world of a doubtful conspiracy concept.” Andrea Lawler traces an American historical past of conspiracy. | Lit Hub Historical past Allison Epstein […]

TODAY: In 2011, President Barack Obama awards Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  “Along with his authoritarian orders, the president—and his unelected South African Rasputin—have eradicated the basic instruments of debate and debate, particularly phrases themselves.” Rob Spillman on self-censorship and why writers, editors, and publishers shouldn’t obey prematurely. | Lit Hub Politics Larissa […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1881, the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first revealed in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.   “Along with his authoritarian orders, the president—and his unelected South African Rasputin—have eradicated the elemental instruments of debate and debate, specifically phrases themselves.” Rob Spillman on self-censorship and […]