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The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather curious love letter” from the American authorities,

Shane Hinton explains why writers should consider giving their books away for free. | Lit Hub Craft “Del Toro loves monsters—misunderstood, sympathetic monsters—and Shelley’s Creature is the primogenitor of this tradition.” Olivia Rutigliano praises Guillermo Del Toro’s new adaptation of

If you had visited a typical English woodland a few hundred years ago, or at pretty much any point before then, you would have been ambushed by activity. The sounds of thudding axes, rasping saws, and ale-loosened conversation reverberated through

In 2015, after the release of my first book with Burrow Press, a small press based out of Orlando, Florida, I was invited to give a reading at a public library. The book I’d always imagined I could write was

The heroine of my new novel Boleyn Traitor is Jane Boleyn—lady-in-waiting to her sister-in-law, Anne Boleyn. Although Jane played a central role in the reigns of five Tudor queens, her reputation was smeared upon her death and her personal story

One of the most recognizable words in our modern culture is “Frankenstein.” But in Guillermo del Toro’s magnificent new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, another name (rather, the other part of that name) is much more important: “Victor.” This

My dog Tobi has been the biggest constant in my life. He came to me when I was a teenager, and we have been inseparable ever since. He went through college with me. He moved countries with me. We have

If you had visited a typical English woodland a few hundred years ago, or at pretty much any point before then, you would have been ambushed by activity. The sounds of thudding axes, rasping saws, and ale-loosened conversation reverberated through

For a short time, a photograph of Tony “TJ” Brisker hung alone above a white wood door at Light of the Village, a church in Alabama Village, a destitute neighborhood in the Mobile suburb of Prichard in southern Alabama. Other

My Wife and My Nose “What’re you up to?” my wife inquired, as she watched me hover uncharacteristically before the mirror. “Nothing,” I replied. “Or just looking up my nose. Inspecting this nostril. Pressing on it brings out a little

Christmas morning in 1912 was simply glorious in San Francisco. Under a brilliant blue sky, a crowd of children dressed in their holiday best dragged their parents to Golden Gate Park. None other than Santa Claus himself was to preside

On. Off. On. Off. I flicked the light switches. Stared at the flush of the toilet. Traced the exposed brick stairwell, and let the dust dress my finger, like my home was the moon. There are no poetics yet in

Ted Geisel, the doctor best known for spreading the gospel of green eggs and ham, has a deep bench of classic kid’s books. Dr. Seuss gave us cats in hats and star-bellied sneetches. He gave some of us our first

Several charitable groups—among them the Ford, Hawthornden, Lannan, MacArthur, Mellon, and Poetry foundations—are teaming up to launch the Literary Arts Fund, an effort to give the “essential yet critically underfunded” lit world a much-needed boost. The program, which earmarks funds

The speed at which a New York fall flies by will never cease to astound me. Here we are, already in the last week of October, midway through a cherished, idyllic time in the city. And by that I mean,

“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.” On the dangerous fine print of creative contract law. | Lit Hub Craft Anthony Vinci examines space warfare, spy satellites, and espionage’s new era. | Lit Hub Politics

To be caught in the spotlight of our pretensions is the worst kind of embarrassment there is. And so, one thing I found notable in the years I spent writing a biography of Bob Dylan and his poetic songwriting was

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal….” –Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) “I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman, or child, that was in favor of producing a perfect

The greatest explorers have also been great spies. The two professions are intimately linked, with both spies and explorers illuminating the unknown. People like Sir Richard Francis Burton exemplify this connection. Burton’s exploits and intellect are legendary. He spoke twenty-nine

Explorers come from many backgrounds. Dr. Martin Nweeia started as a dental surgeon. Eventually, his interests expanded to include dental anthropology—the study of how teeth offer clues to species’ diets, health, and even evolution and migration. Nweeia gave speeches around

Queen Mother Audley Moore’s modest Philadelphia home was where some of the country’s most famous Black nationalist leaders, like Malcolm X and members of RAM (Revolutionary Action Movement, a militant youth organization), gathered to study, strategize, and draw inspiration from

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinian bias in the paper’s op-ed pages, which have been a

A writer sits at her kitchen table, pen in hand, staring at her first book contract. The coffee’s gone cold. The pen is poised. The word that catches her eye isn’t advance or royalties. It’s morality. It reads like a

Celebrate 20 years of The Silver Spoon with a Pizza Margherita recipe fit for a queen. | Lit Hub Food You probably remember FarmVille, but do you remember the wannabe pop star whose FarmVille-inspired Ponzi scheme managed to pocket $250 million?

When thirty-three-year-old Richard Carrington settled down to sketch sunspots on the morning of September 1, 1859, he could not have known that he was about to witness the most important change ever glimpsed in a cosmic environment. His career, once

Kobolds are difficult to classify, as they are shape-changers, household faeries, seafaring explorers, and miners. They are described in both Seelie and Unseelie ways, depending on their mood and circumstances, and they have been around for a long, long time.

The first thing everybody notices about Mehmet Aydın is his baby face. It’s not just that he’s a chubby guy; it’s that his face has a certain look, all round and soft and cherubic, and he just looks like he

I am a historian who likes to write about ideas and concepts that have become so ubiquitous and ordinary that we don’t normally talk or even think much about them. You might call this a form of intellectual history. But

In 1889, King Umberto I and his wife, Queen Margherita, curious about the Neapolitan staple food, invited the pizza maker Don Raffaele to the kitchen of the Cappo di Monte palace in Naples, where he cooked a few samples. The

On a winter afternoon in 2004, I landed at a tiny airport north of Calcutta and began the sad journey into the Himalayas for my grandmother’s funeral. The taxi driver sped up the winding road that I’d first traveled over

I’m back at it—on my phone in the night, scrolling through our local Buy Nothing group, where many “gifts” are on offer: a Starbucks card that may or may not have any money left on it, two broken television sets,

Steven J. Zipperstein explores the biographical underpinnings of Philip Roth’s iconic work of Jewish-American fiction, Portnoy’s Complaint. | Lit Hub Criticism What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue

One week before Halloween folks, so it’s getting to be crunch time for sorting out your costume. I tend to default to wearing a ye-olden-tymes powdered wig and my old rocker vest and going as “Old School Punk,” but I’ve

Netflix will be releasing a series from Jane Schoenbrun based on Charles Burns’ comic Black Hole, according to Deadline. The series doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s hard to think of anyone better able to translate Burns’ vision

The Booker Prize Foundation is adding to its roster of rarefied literary recognitions. A new prize will recognize excellent fiction written for young readers—specifically, children ages eight to 12. As The Guardian reported this morning, the baby Booker will launch

The seven finalists for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize answer our questions about reading, writing, and more! | Lit Hub In Conversation “She was like an exclamation point in Garamond type…” Cynthia Zarin remembers her late friend, writer

In September, the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for their annual First Novel Prize, which celebrates debut novels and seeks to support early career writers. The shortlisted authors will each be awarded $1,000 and the winner, who will be

Humans have always been mindful of the air. Children as young as three or four can use aerial images to find hidden treasure and navigate their neighborhoods; spatial and mapping skills appear across cultures. Something about the airborne imagination seems

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. Having done this show for a full year, it means we have some traditions

Gish Jen’s Bad Bad Girl, Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl, and Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction 1.

“I’m screwed.” That is a polite way of expressing my thoughts upon meeting the chef with whom I was supposed to prepare a banquet at the World Economic Forum. Nearly twenty-five hundred dignitaries from 140 countries had assembled in Davos,

When I made my first appointment with my therapist, Silas, I had been working on my novel for three years. I’ve always been a fast writer, and I’d finished my first book in an eighteen-month blur. But despite the fact

Artists around the country are organizing events, making zines, and planning performances for next month’s Fall of Freedom, a “wave of creative resistance” in defiance of authoritarianism. And you’re invited to participate. The “decentralized, open-source initiative” is envisioned as a

Heists are in the air. Paris is in a tizzy over recent smash and grabs at the Louvre and elsewhere. Stateside, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, featuring the people’s boyfriend Josh O’Connor as a bumbling local art thief, is hitting theaters.

The annual John Dos Passos Prize for Literature honors the country’s most talented fiction writers for career-long contributions to the genre. First launched in 1980, the prize is the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university. And

“I see film and books as apples and oranges. Both are fruits, but the taste is remarkably different.” Stephen King reflects on the numerous adaptations of his work. | Lit Hub Film Publishers Hedi El Kholti and Dan Simon remember