The Authors Guild filed a class action lawsuit this week against the NEH and DOGE “for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants from funds appropriated by Congress for the programs.” In a guest essay for the New York Times Opinion section, George Saunders responds to the Trump administration’s firing of Librarian of Congress […]
Hundreds of National Endowment for the Arts grants for publications, artists and arts organizations, and theater groups have been terminated; Trump has also proposed eliminating the NEA entirely. n+1, which lost its NEA grant, has published a letter from four senior staffers of the NEA’s literary arts office who resigned in response to the cuts. […]
McNally Jackson is starting a twice-yearly book festival, Vulture reports. The inaugural festival will take place over the course of six weeks in May and June with events at the store’s Seaport location featuring conversations between Parul Sehgal and Andrea Long Chu, Lucy Sante and Harron Walker, Hala Alyan and Sarah Aziza, and more. The […]
Jamie Hood discusses her book Trauma Plot: A Life—which is out today—with Nicholas Russell at Defector: “I think that the reason it took me 10 years to write Trauma Plot was because rape ultimately seemed to me like a formal problem. Like, I could not figure out how to tell the fucking story.” In the […]
The spring issue of the Yale Review is out now, with contributions by Tiana Reid, Audrey Wollen, Mona Oraby, Isabella Hammad, Guadalupe Nettel, and more. On March 19th, 4Columns magazine is hosting “Manifesto,” a free event at KGB bar in New York City. The six participants—Brian Dillon, Johanna Fateman, Ciarán Finlayson, Harmony Holiday, Alex Kitnick, […]
Amulet, a new magazine “offering a fresh perspective on spirituality, religion, and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alike” has launched; Samuel Rutter is editor in chief. The first issue is online now, with essays, poetry, and fiction by Brittany Newell, K-Ming Chang, Fady Joudah, Simon Critchley, Yasmine Seale, and more. In her essay, Sheila Heti […]
This year’s Booker Prize longlist has been announced. All thirteen nominated authors have been nominated for the first time this year, and three authors are nominated for their debut books. The shortlist will be announced on April 8. Online at the Paris Review this week: Lisa Carver’s diary of an ayahuasca retreat in Peru, excerpted […]
The winter issue of The Point, “American Realism,” is now online, with an editor’s letter by Becca Rothfeld assessing the art and culture of the “liberal resistance” that thrived during Trump’s first administration and why she won’t pretend to be able to predict what will come in the next four years, Jessi Jezewska Stevens on […]
On the Know Your Enemy podcast, Erik Baker talks about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. Writing recently in the New Yorker, Anna Wiener notes that self-help-influenced ideas about work being a path to personal fulfillment may seem like a new phenomenon, but “Baker argues that the […]
The renowned poet, civil rights activist, and longtime Virginia Tech professor of English Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of eighty-one. Giovanni came up during the Black Arts Movement, self-publishing her debut collection of poems, Black Feeling, Black Talk in 1968 with the help of friends. She went on to publish more than twenty-five […]
In the Irish Times, Sally Rooney writes about the climate crisis: “We know what’s already happening around us. And we know what’s coming next. When are we going to have the courage to stop it?” Citing Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Rooney discusses how capitalist impunity poses an existential threat. “Multinational corporations […]
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, about six astronauts on the International Space Station, is the winner of this year’s Booker Prize. At the Columbia Journalism Review, Joel Simon argues that journalists covering Trump’s second term may benefit from taking an approach akin to that of a foreign correspondent. Simon talked with Suzy Hansen, whose book Notes […]
At Dissent, Gabriel Winant offers post-election analysis, outlining how Democratic leadership has “comprehensively failed to set the terms of ideological debate in any respect. Their defensiveness and hypocrisy served only to give encouragement to Trump while demobilizing their own voters, whom they will no doubt now blame—as though millions of disaggregated, disorganized individuals can constitute […]
The Fall 2024 issue of Bookforum is out now! In this edition: A. S. Hamrah on Agnès Varda’s stunning and nonlinear career, Brandon Taylor on the novels of Sally Rooney, Justin Taylor on getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives, Charlotte Shane and Jamie Hood in conversation, Christian Lorentzen on Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, […]
The poet and translator Anne Carson will receive the Paris Review’s 2025 Hadada Award, which recognizes “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Reviewing Carson’s latest book, Wrong Norma, in the Winter 2024 issue of Bookforum, Jennifer Krasinski observed: “It is a fitting irony that […]
At The New Inquiry, read the Palestinian Youth Movement’s statement marking one year since October 7: “It will take decades to understand the scale of the violence Palestinians have endured this year. The grief across the Arab world is unfathomable. Our children are not numbers. They are among the two million forgotten by a world […]
The fall issue of the Paris Review is out now, with prose by Josephine Baker and Morgan Thomas, poetry by Hannah Arendt and Sara Gilmore, interviews with Rosemarie Waldrop and Javier Cercas, and more. Online at n+1, read A. S. Hamrah on a sampling of this summer’s movies. On Osgood Perkins’s Longlegs: “Ordinary things like […]
In The Guardian, Moira Donegan covers last night’s presidential debate: “Trump failed to convincingly land attacks on Harris, and instead he spent much of the night arguing on the turf that his opponent chose for him. There was no bait she offered him that he didn’t take.” Tonight at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, Charlotte […]