Edwidge Danticat Nominated for Third National Book Award — and ‘the Third Time’s the Charm’ Applies
The National Book Awards reveal their finalists, including a three-time nominee's return to fiction. Winners named Nov. 18.
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National Book Awards Announce 2026 Finalists Across Five Categories
A grand reckoning of the written word: the 2026 National Book Awards finalists are named, each a worthy contender for the bronze medal.
‘Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds’: Patricia Lockwood’s Poem of Music, Memory, and the Distance Between Youth and Age
A poem about music, memory, and the strange distance between youth and age, told through a hotel room, a screaming fan, and a river beneath a song.
Ancient Greek poem found in Egyptian tomb, along with spells meant to guard the dead
A 1,700-year-old tomb in Egypt bears a poem in Greek and spells to guard the dead, a son's lament for his father.
Elizabeth Alexander Traces How Dance Self-Assessment Became Poetry
Elizabeth Alexander reflects on how dance discipline — daily practice, corrections, self-honesty — shaped her poetry and writing.
Karl Ove Knausgård on Writing About Love, Death, and Everything In Between
A daily roundup of literary links: a book-picking flowchart, artist rooms, bestselling independents, and essays on daughterhood and grief.
How the Book Trade Responded to the Trump Library’s Collapse
A weekly literary digest of poetry, memoir, fiction, and history, with a dash of tech oddity.
Poetry That Works Through Breakups — and the Rare Few That Offer Redemption Instead
Nine poetry collections about breakups and awakenings, from Carson's Tangoes to Gluck's Meadowlands and Sexton's rowing toward God.
Keats’s “To Autumn”: How One Poem Captured a Season Entirely
How John Keats wrote 'To Autumn' while walking by the River Itchen, and why the poem still moves us.
‘Late Summer in the Anthropocene’: Marcus Wicker’s Hibiscus Plant Demands Ceramic Turquoise Views
A poem of late summer and climate grief, wherein a hibiscus child demands its due, and a couple tend their garden amid ruin.
Lit Hub Daily: Coben on Ideas, Fisher on Slavery, and More
A roundup of the week's best literary writing: Coben on ideas, Lopate on Sleepy Hollow, and more history, poetry, and politics.
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Patti Smith’s ‘Gung Ho’: Uneven Poetic Songs Reward Patience
A review of Patti Smith's 2000 album Gung Ho, weighing its best songs against its weaker ones amid critical mixed opinion.