You suckers don’t know your Magna Carta
Kirsten Reach
Eight hundred years after the Archbishop of Canterbury drafted the peace treaty you never got around to reading, and King John of England agreed to it (knowing, somewhere in his… Read more »
Eight hundred years after the Archbishop of Canterbury drafted the peace treaty you never got around to reading, and King John of England agreed to it (knowing, somewhere in his… Read more »
It’s been nine years since James Frey admitted that A Million Little Pieces got billed as a memoir because he couldn’t get it sold as a novel. Nine! That’s enough… Read more »
LitHub is off to a strong start, already making us forget it wasn’t here six months (or even one month) ago. Yesterday the site ran an article by the great… Read more »
The Director of London’s British Museum, Neil MacGregor is to step down from his job at the end of this year. MacGregor has been at the helm of the institution… Read more »
We’re headed to AWP—the Association of Writers and Writing Programs—in Minneapolis tomorrow and we hope to see you at some of our events this week. Here are the highlights! Thursday,… Read more »
Remember when writers wrote books in private? Of course you do! Because it was happening as recently as Wednesday. But things took a turn for the worst yesterday, when Hachette… Read more »
A new online magazine aimed at women is being launched by BBC Radio 6Music presenter Lauren Laverne, and former editor of Cosmopolitan and Red magazines Sam Baker. The new website,… Read more »
The morning after the Folio Prize winner was announced, another prize shortlist came to our attention: the Man Booker International Prize, one of the most interesting prizes around. Launched in… Read more »
New York Times bestselling novelist Pat Conroy is embracing a healthier lifestyle, and he wants you to be there at his side. That’s why he’s opening a gym in Port… Read more »
The second Folio Prize for Fiction is awarded to an American for his a second novel: Family Life by Akhil Sharma. Sharma’s rendering of an American family is deemed “lucid,… Read more »