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Here are the finalists for the 2026 Cercador Prize.
Yesterday, the Cercador Prize, which recognizes works of literature in translation, selected by independent booksellers across the US, annou
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Lit Hub Daily: October 1, 2026
What should your kids read in October? We think these 10 new children’s books should be on your radar. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marcia Chatel
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The Literary Film TV You Need to Stream in October
Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their e
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Time Travel Romance and Haunted TV Channels: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy
It being spooky season, there’s some undeniable horror crossover in these books: haunted dolls, angels that drive you mad, impossible pregna
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Now and Then, Mothers and Daughters, Sonnets and Sequences: Seven Poetry Books to Read This Month
The present moment is brief and sudden, and it’s really all we have: the feel of our feet on the ground, the endless stream of thoughts in o
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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in October 2026
I recently decided to sort through my overstuffed shelves in search of books to give away: the ones I’m not likely to read again, the ones m
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The Floating World
After Cora’s death I had a recurring dream. A heavy black cloud would pass over me. The cloud was evil. I don’t mean that evil was among the
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James Richardson on Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971-2026
Poet James Richardson joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to talk about his collection of new and selected poetry, Within th
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Caro Claire Burke has bought you (yes you) a ticket to see NAZA.
Caro Claire Burke, the bestselling novelist behind the most-talked-about-book of 2026, is asking all her followers to see a movie. That movi
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Here’s the Center for Fiction’s 2026 First Novel Prize shortlist.
The Center for Fiction has announced the shortlist for their annual First Novel Prize, which was judged this year by R. O. Kwon, Kiese Laymo
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Celebrate the first ever #LitMagWeek with these three journals.
If you love or have ever loved a literary magazine, I bring glad tidings. This week heralds a new appreciation rite for the discerning reade
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Why We are Suing the City of Los Angeles to Save Libraries
Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad are award-winning authors with children’s books featuring Palestinians. They have filed a lawsuit against
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Thomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump Era
After a decade of Donald Trump’s chaos and cruelty, we might ask how literary fiction is responding. Readers, for their part, flocked to jou
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Lit Hub Daily: September 30, 2026
Happy International Translation Day! Here are takes on literary translation from the experts. | Lit Hub On Translation “He is ensuring that
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The Real Technofascists of Silicon Valley: Why Big Tech Oligarchs Hate Democracy
When I first started seeing coverage of what seemed like a deranged plan from the Trump administration to take over Greenland, I felt like I
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The 12 Best Book Covers of September
Another month of books, another month of book covers. In September, the month of Big Books, it was all about the art selection. Here are som
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A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn
In August 1991, in a review of a new anthology of sixteenth-century poetry, Thom Gunn noted two poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt. These were poems
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On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII
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Heavy Cream
The week after we ransacked my grandmother’s house for bounty, we drove back to Maple Falls to attend as guests my grandmother’s memorial at
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Here are this year’s literary MacArthur Fellows.
On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2026 class of MacArthur Fellows: 20 individuals who demonstrate “exceptional creativity”
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Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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 millio
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Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2026
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
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Hernan Diaz’s New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him
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 w
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What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms
Phrased & Confused, in which Eli Burnstein digs into the meaning of some of the famous literary aphorisms of all time, is available now from
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