On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2026 class of MacArthur Fellows: 20 individuals who demonstrate “exceptional creativity” and excellence in their fields, and “who demonstrate the ability to impact so...
The winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week, on Thursday, October 8. Said winner will take home 12.0 million Swedish kronor (SEK), or a little over 1.2 million dollars, along with a li...
Hernan Diaz explains why his new novel isn’t a dystopia: “Similar to Diaz’s debut In the Distance, his new work can feel like social theory masquerading as old school adventure. This is by design.” | Lit Hub In Conver...
Pulitzer winner Hernan Diaz releases his first novel in four years this week, and he’s parrying a few questions about genre. “I take issue with the word dystopia,” he replies to an opening inquiry. “I don’t think Ply ...
Phrased & Confused, in which Eli Burnstein digs into the meaning of some of the famous literary aphorisms of all time, is available now from Abrams. “A rose is a rose is a rose.” –Gertrude Stein, 1913 From the
ANTIBLACKNESS (noun) 1. that which engulfs Blackness with inescapable violence 2. a set of relations that mark and position Blackness as the nadir of sub-human or non-human qualities 3. Structural. Modern. Gratuitous ...
Nina Schuyler, the award-winning climate fiction author, grew up surrounded by bodies of water in Washington State. She spent most of her summers as a girl in or on Gravelly Lake, which was carved out by a glacier, so it
I got into librarianship kind of like how a barfly gets into tending bar: you sit in the place for hours on end, day after day, appreciating the hell out of the person on the other side of the counter