Tony Tulathimutte, the dark wizard behind 2025’s seismic Rejection, has won a new (and massive!) literary prize. As the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Literary Arts Award, Tulathimutte will receive $150,000. The award is designated…
Today, the Inside Literary Prize, the US’s only literary prize judged by incarcerated readers, announced its 2026 winner:…
More than two years ago I wrote an angry piece about how lame the bulletpointization of books is:…
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It was so hot that summer that they kept talking about it on the news. During the day,…
Poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine joins co-hosts Christian Barter, Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell to talk…