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‘American Fiction’ and the ‘Just Literature’ Problem
Listen to this article 00:00 20:15 Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. “Why are these books here?” asks Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, the writer protagonist of the film American Fiction, as he points to four novels stacked neatly on the shelf of a chain bookstore. The name Ellison sticks out from…
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42 Queer Books You Need to Read in 2024
A confession: I very nearly quit putting this list together. Throughout the year I keep a running list, adding new names whenever I learn about an upcoming queer book—from Tweets, publicist pitches, endless NetGalley scrolls—and I usually start writing the blurbs for each book a few months before the list is due. Let me also…
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19 New YA Graphic Novels Out January-March 2024
Happy New Year, comics readers! I am super excited to ring in 2024 with some amazing new comics and graphic novels that are sure to be great reads. I’ve been doing the quarterly YA comics and graphic novels round-up for a number of years now, and it’s been exciting to see this form in YA…
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Best Books Recommended By Shashi Tharoor: From Mahabharat To Arthashashtra
Best Books Recommended By Shashi Tharoor: Widely known as a renowned politician of India only a few people know that he is a prolific writer as well, penned various literary gems mostly non-fiction, additionally Tharoor has written critically acclaimed op-eds in prestigious publications and newspapers like Washington Post, and The New York Times. Up until…
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22 new books out today!
January 9, 2024, 4:01am I’m still processing that it’s now 2024—I just almost wrote “2023” again!—and it can feel a little disorienting to enter a new year for the first few days, if not weeks. But there are reliable things to look forward to, like brand-new books coming out each week, and, after a slowdown…
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Mifal Hapayis names five finalists for prestigious literature award
Mifal Hapayis announced the five finalists for the 2023 Sapir Prize for Literature earlier today. Two of the nominees, Gail Hareven and Orly Castel-Bloom, are previous winners of the prize. The five candidates for this year are: ‘What Happened to Hagar in Eilat’ by Ofra Offer Oren (Published by Kinneret Zmora Bitan), ‘Biotope’ By Orly…
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‘A legend in the literary world’ keeps S.F.’s City Lights shining
A portrait of Paul Yamazaki at San Francisco’s famed City Lights Bookstore, where he has worked since 1970. Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle It sounds like the kind of legend that gathers fictional flourishes over time, but the details check out. In 1970, when he was a 20-year-old student at what was then called San Francisco State…
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Take Five: Illustrated Middle Grade Novels
As part of our Mind the Middle project focusing on middle grade books, I’m going to try to do weekly Take Five lists, which is to say, five books on a certain theme. This is the first list, so I’m still thinking things through, but my intent is to focus on books from the past…
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Winter 2024 YA Book Releases To Enjoy This Season (& Beyond)
Kelly Jensen Editor Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on…
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New York cults! Lawrence of Arabia! 18 new books out today.
January 2, 2024, 4:47am A belated Happy New Year’s to all of you! To usher in 2024—and your likely resolutions to read more books this year than before, or, at least, to read a whole bunch of them—here are eighteen new books fresh off the presses. Below, you’ll find fiction, poems, and nonfiction. There’s a…