3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1001+ words) What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time Literary Hub What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time Jennifer de Mooy on the Carbon Under Our Feet I am sitting in a frost pocket in West Virginia, looking at a Canada warbler....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (405+ words) Literary Hub This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell” The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (137+ words) Today, the Caine Prize for African Writing, which awards £10,000 annually to the best short story by an African writer living on the continent or in the diaspora, has announced its 2026 shortlist. These five writers were selected from a record 407 entries…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (146+ words) As I read my way through the September stacks, I was struck by the feeling that we have finally reached the moment post-pandemic when the poets, collectively, are finding their way. Of course, as always, I’m just speaking for me,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1376+ words) Nanette and Josie finished praying and walked toward the bus stop. Josie pulled out her phone. She wanted to show Nanette a group she’d found on Instagram: @NunsAgainstGuns. “This one is fire,” Josie said. Nanette could see the goodness in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (221+ words) This morning, Kirkus Reviews announced the 18 finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, which recognizes excellence in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. Books are selected by a panel of peers, editors, and other industry professionals. Winners in all…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1979+ words) The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home. I do not mean I knew it in a peaceful, comforting sort of way, the way one recognizes an old friend; that first time it was like…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (115+ words) Tove Jansson, The Summer Book Asali Solomon, Days of Afrekete Mercè Rodoreda, The Time of the Doves (La plaça del Diamant) Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf Heidi Ardizzione, An Illuminated Life…...