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Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Jenan Matari, and Daniel José Older are among the more than 100 writers who have signed an open letter vowing to boycott Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s largest bookstore.

By signing the letter, the authors have pledged “to no long...


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Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, newspaper clippings, and more. It probably shouldn’t be surprising that Houdini was a bit obsessive, but his collecting was next level. Some of his library was for the craft, and helped him build his act—he collected books on safes and prison architect...


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Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book Arsenal Festival—is developing a grant program to aid Ukrainian publishers affected by the ongoing war.

This effort follows recent Russian strikes that destro...


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TODAY: In 1740, Scottish biographer James Boswell is born. What happened to the “make book?” Maris Kreizman considers the conundrum with debut novels. | Lit Hub Traci Brimhall explores

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Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in our bright and preposterous academic regalia, amid a long line of similarly be-gowned faculty who’d served one sort of semi-administrative role or other. She’s great, this colleague—a few years older than I, kind but also wry, patient of the inanities of...


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