I came upon this book‘s 1944 edition on my parents’ bookshelves when I was around eleven, attracted irresistibly by its doom-laden prologue …

When awarding the acclaimed Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the Swedish Academy noted how “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic,...

Fiction

Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.

Katrina Dodson and Merve Emre on Covert Joy, a selection of the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction.

Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…

I want to be a Donoso girl Sometimes I have the unsettling feeling that my life, and as such my writing, are the product of a queer Chilean man’s fevered imagination. And that I have followed the s…

Presented by 192 Books, Megan McDowell in conversation with Zito Madu about her translation of José Donoso’s The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria (New Directions, 2025)

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—wh…

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César Aira’s short story of love, grief, and ghosts, from a small town in Argentina.

Out of 1,100 submissions, writer Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child has won the 2024 Novel Prize, and will be published early next year. The Novel Prize is awarded biennially to an unpublished work of…

Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day.

New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Novel Prize, a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by p...

Read the opening pages of Fran Ross' comic masterpiece OREO, the first book selected for this year's ND Book Club at McNally Jackson.

Let me just finish disinfecting a table number marker and then off I go, I just have to put down what I’ve got in my hands to serve, I tell her that with my eyes, yes I’m coming, I’ve seen the whole t...