1+ week, 4+ day ago   (137+ words) Today, the Caine Prize for African Writing, which awards £10,000 annually to the best short story by an African writer living on the continent or in the diaspora, has announced its 2026 shortlist. These five writers were selected from a record 407 entries…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (358+ words) Literary bona fides: based on Ryan David Jahn’s The Dispatcher (2011) Patrick Brammall stars in this Australian thriller, in which a police dispatcher receives a call from a young woman who sounds like his daughter—who has been missing for 11 years…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (945+ words) Stay safe, as always, and I hope you’ll add these to your to-be-read piles. Gish Jen, Bad Bad Girl (Vintage) Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief (Vintage) Frances Wilson, Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel (Picador) “A brilliant…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1979+ words) The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home. I do not mean I knew it in a peaceful, comforting sort of way, the way one recognizes an old friend; that first time it was like…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (229+ words) Lit Hub Weekly: August 17 – 21, 2026 Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: August 17 - 21, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit Hub TV - Why the tragedy of Jason…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (681+ words) Literary Hub Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV More Like Literary Box I have always loved television, but as a kid, television was the “idiot box.” According to experts, this device could rot my…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (584+ words) Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text messages, Instagram captions, and other digital fragments rather than…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1500+ words) Literary Hub The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness M.C. Mah Considers the Work of Making and Waiting For the true beginner, there can be no end. From the moment they sit at the desk, the unemerged writer faces a…...