Warning:} This article on The Last of Us contains spoilers. Upon its release in 2014, the story DLC Left Behind was immediately praised for its heartfelt and critical contribution to the acclaimed game. In this new chapter, players were presented with a previously unseen moment in Joel and Ellie’s journey […]…
“Take the letters. / Take only what you can carry.” Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on contemporary Ukrainian poetry. | Lit Hub Ukraine In actually good nature news, certain populations of whales are rebounding. What can we learn from their recoveries? | Lit Hub Nature A brief history of the lobotomy, and how the so-called “miracle cure” […]…
This morning, apropos of nothing, I got to thinking about boxes. More specifically, I got to thinking about some of my favorite fictional boxes. Why, I wondered, in a country so full of industrious billionaires and their plucky, disruptor offspring, has nobody taken it upon themselves to fund at least a prototype of the Dune […]…
Amid food shortages that Farmer MacGregor would despair of, Great Britons were this week urged to “cherish the specialisms that we have in this country” by UK environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, who insisted to parliament that there were turnips enough to go around, what’s everyone fussing about, have a dig, won’t you. “Let them eat […]…
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ed Park’s long awaited second novel Same Bed Different Dreams, which will be published by Random House this fall. Here’s a bit about the novel from the publisher: March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This […]…
Poets have long defined Ukraine. In the year since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian poets have helped to share with the world not only the country’s rich textual tradition, but also what is worth fighting for: children’s futures, self determination, the “freedom to rest in a land of love,” as Iya Kiva wrote in a poem […]…
Mutiny on Martha’s Vineyard: How a 26-year-old Steven Spielberg made Jaws… and nearly lost his career in the process. | Lit Hub Film & TV Claire Heywood recommends Greek plays for modern readers. | Lit Hub Turns out, fig pollination and literary criticism have more in common than you’d think. | Lit Hub Nature Rebecca […]…
Our anthology, In the Hour of War, begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing / and all my people are writing. It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people and who are translated into dozens of languages, as well as those who are relatively unknown […]…
In late 1973, Spielberg called a meeting to figure out just how on God’s green earth he could make a movie starring a shark. Production designer Joe Alves, an ex-race car driver, had consulted ichthyologists, who said that the biggest great white sharks were, at most, 19 feet long, and untrainable. But the shark in […]…
Bestseller lists of recent years have shown that our interest in the tales of the ancient Greeks is still going strong after three millennia, and even experiencing a renaissance. This is a testament, I think, to the timelessness of their content: the deeply human passions and agonies that they evoke, the questions they raise about […]…
