TODAY: In 1859, Wilkie Collins’s sensation novel, The Woman in White, begins serialization in All the Year Round.
- Read Ayana Mathis’ remarks about Marilynne Robinson, who was awarded the Lewis H. Lapham Award for Literary Excellence at this month’s gala celebrating 175 years of Harper’s Magazine. | Lit Hub
- November’s best book covers are bold, humorous, and perfectly referential. | Lit Hub Design
- “Please stop imposing your moralistic, colonial, and religious ideas on me.” How sex workers organize across the Global South. | Lit Hub Politics
- Sarah Hall’s Helm, Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives, Joy Williams’ The Pelican Child, and Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels all feature among November’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- December brings new paperback editions of books by Julia Armfield, Naomi Wood, Britney Spears, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The Black Lizard bridge that leads folks into Anadarko County feels like it ought not be crossed unless your affairs are in order.” Read from David Tromblay’s new novel, Coydog. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Byung-Chul Han on the pleasures of spending slow time in the “richly sensual and material” world of the garden. | Orion
- Lincoln Michel considers literary philosophy and philosophical literature, and makes the case that “philosophy and art do not have to be opposites at all.” | Counter Craft
- Toye Oladinni examines celebrity, fantasy, and dream analyst Lauren Lawrence’s 2002 coffee table book, Private Dreams of Public People. | The Paris Review
- Why, when it comes to AI, language doesn’t equal intelligence. | The Verge
- Lamorna Ash reads self-help books about the art of conversation. | The Dial
- “In a culture that inundates us with pictures that compete for our attention, we should appreciate something as harmless as a light box showing luminous waters and a red canoe. Not everything is so innocuous.” On retro advertising and the trap of aesthetic nostalgia. | Public Books
