Browsing: Books & Fiction
Halimah Marcus steps down after 16 years at Electric Literature. Denne Michele Norris takes over as Executive Director of the literary nonprofit.
Dashiell Hammett’s birthday, AI grief in academia, a 200,000-simile dataset, and two poems that refuse to explain themselves. Literary culture, May 27.
Pushkin’s 227th birthday, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, AI prose detection, and ghost stories. The week’s literary news, fully rewritten.
Most people intend to read the Great Books but never do. Shame and academic gatekeeping explain why — and why neither obstacle is real.
Wallace Shawn’s double bill at Greenwich House Theater challenges theatrical conventions with literary language and static staging that somehow creates magnetic drama.
Literary world confronts AI poetry debates while international censorship cases reshape publishing landscape.
Netflix’s East of Eden adaptation reimagines Cathy Ames as an antihero rather than villain, with Florence Pugh starring in Zoe Kazan’s fresh take on Steinbeck’s classic.
William Kentridge maps 47 years of artistic practice through exhaustive lists of subjects drawn and undrawn, creating an inadvertent autobiography through accumulated sketches.
Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson’s film adaptation strips away the animal consciousness that made the sheep crime novel extraordinary.
Mystery writers are partnering with true crime podcasters, creating hybrid content that’s reshaping both industries through shared research, cross-platform storytelling, and new publishing models.