Browsing: Books & Fiction
From Colson Whitehead profiles to Walter Mosley on the novel’s nature, June 26’s literary world spans history, fiction, and translation.
Writer Shohreh woke in her upstate New York apartment on the last day of Feb 2026 to learn Iran was at war — and her mother in Tehran was unreachable.
The Black List and Zando’s Evil Twin imprint launch a manuscript competition offering $25,000 for an unpublished horror novel. Submissions close November 20, 2026.
Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi, Dan Chiasson defends the writing impasse, and Lit Hub’s June 15-19, 2026 week refuses easy conclusions.
Kathryn Stockett leads indie fiction charts as Grove, Slowburn, and New Directions dominate. Beth Brower’s small-press series lands four times in the top 40.
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman relaunch The Rumpus with expanded cultural coverage, a new Spanish-language vertical, and a prison writing column.
A week in books: Paul Celan biography, AI boyfriends in The Yale Review, Thomas Mann on America, and a Galileo forgery traced by JSTOR Daily.
Bookstores thrive by selling community, Jesse Green hunts Wilder’s last play, and a Clive Barker reread lands in Thatcher’s England. June 12 in books.
Tolstoy’s peasant disguise, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, and Carlos Labbé’s strange soccer novel headline June 10’s literary roundup.
The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards went to Stephen Graham Jones, Ryan Coogler, and others across nine categories. Full winners and context here.