This month, Harvard University Press published a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s letters, the first in over sixty years, edited by Cristianne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell. It is the most complete volume of the poet’s correspondence to date, presenting 1,304 letters, including hundreds of previously uncollected letters and “letter-poems,” each one freshly...
April 29, 2024 Mr. A.G. Sulzberger, Chairperson The New York Times Mr. Sulzberger, We are professors of journalism and scholars of news media at colleges and universities across the United States. We write this after reading and hearing compelling reports over many months, in several news outlets and on social media, questioning the integrity...
TODAY: In 1877, Alice B. Toklas is born. Dorothy Chan, Erik Larson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and more! These 20 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists We do it for the aesthetic. Here are the best book covers of April. | Lit Hub Design “There’s always, I think, a fundamental mystery to other people.” Nicole Chung talks to Rachel...
I first met Rachel Khong in Fall 2018, when I spent a few days as Writer in Residence at the Ruby, the collective/workspace she had founded earlier that year in San Francisco’s Mission District. Khong’s debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, is a book I’ve given to friends and relatives with wildly different reading tastes, always confident that they will love...
“Books were my first everything—my first teachers, my first friends,” says Gloria Steinem. She spent a lot of her childhood absorbing as much literature as she could. She also spent much of her childhood absorbing the reality that her mother, despite being an accomplished journalist, suffered from not being able to progress in a profession she very...
Another month of books, another month of book covers. It’s been gloomy in upstate New York, but according to a certain saying, all this endless rain will pay dividends one day soon. In the meantime, here are some nice things to look at: Ryan Chapman, The Audacity; cover design by Luke Bird (Soho Press, April 2) The audacity, indeed. I love a book...