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Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishers

Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don’t know a word, just click on it and the transl...

10 Hacks Every Libby User Should Know

If you're a reader (or listener), you'll want to take advantage of these Libby hacks for borrowing, organizing, and maximizing your loans.

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The longlist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature is here.

рџ“љ Librarians are winning

September 15, 2026View Online | Join All Access | Listen Speculation about the impact of a once-in-a-decade rave review has swirled around the bookish internet since the New York...

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We're 15 years in the game

LITerature: Badass Opening Lines From Bestselling Books

The Best International Fiction of the Month: September 2026

Here are three newly translated works of fiction from across the globe, along with one classic work of true crime (as Capote would say, a “nonfiction novel”). Keep an eye on the si...

рџ“љ The independent literary media scene

You're invited to Book Riot's 15th birthday party.

When It Gets Hot the Block Gets Loud

Bed-Stuy Ode Click to enlarge Parentheticals I have, from time to time, been suspectedof goodness. Thankfully, being human,it’s a difficult reputationto maintain. Exposed as someon...

Lit Hub Senior Editor Job: How to Check the New-Vertical Role

Lit Hub is hiring a senior editor for a new vertical, but the announcement alone does not confirm the vertical's focus, job requirements, or work arrangement. Use this practical gu...

рџ“љ Hunger for real stories

The best nonfiction books of the century so far

The Best International Fiction of The Month: October 2026

October brings some of the coolest, cruelest, sharpest, nastiest fiction of the year, and the world of translated literature is no exception. The following titles are as brutal as...

Fall Culture Index 2026: Get Lit Edition — 10 Books to Wrap Up Your September

Dive into memoirs and more from legends like Layla Ali, Grandmaster Flash, and Lizzo!

Lydia Millet’s Writerly Evolution Is All About Being More Shameless

If you haven’t already read at least one of Lydia Millet’s books, the prospect might be daunting. By my count, there are 22 to choose from. Where to start? Do you go back to the ma...

рџ“љ Her bold and inventive oeuvre

It's been a big week in book awards

7 Books About Writing the Writer

We usually think of the writer as a solitary being, whereas if you actually look at the record, books spring up from complex ecosystems. As the great writer Juan Rulfo said when qu...

Lethal Luxury: 6 Novels Set in Decadent Locales

I don’t know about you, but I read to escape. To leave the mundane world behind. To dive into a setting completely different from my own. And to me, few things are more escapist th...

15 Books We Read and Loved This Summer

As you might imagine, we read a lot of books here at EL. Followers of our Instagram may be familiar with our long-running What We’re Reading series, where we post every other week...

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In The Book

First tuesday of the month as always....

Get Lit: 10 Books On Fantasy, Finance and Full Vibes to Close Out August

Dive into August's hottest books on fantasy, finance, memoirs & Black culture.

Shelf Life: Elizabeth Acevedo

The author of Anger Is Only a Shadow takes ELLE’s literary survey.

The Bar Book / The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

Issue No. 139

The 2026 National Book Award Longlist for Translated Literature

Here are the 10 titles on the 2026 National Book Awards longlist for Translated Literature.