📖 📖 Lichtenberg 世界文学日报 - 2026年11月08日

Since 2019 Joseph O’Neill has been writing essays for the Review exhorting the Democratic Party to play offense in the face of what was beginning to seem like an aversion to winning. So in November 2024, in the bewildering days after Donald Trump’s reelection, I wrote to O’Neill in search of a diagnosis of the […]

David Cole • Sue Halpern • Mark O’Connell • Quinn Slobodian The People’s Referendum David Cole Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, I spoke at a local Washington, D.C., bookstore on civil liberties and the rule of law. DOGE was taking a wrecking ball to federal agencies, Trump had pardoned everyone involved in the […]

The American left has won a historic election by successfully linking the affordability crisis to Republican corruption, and the whole Democratic Party must now learn from their example.

Season 2, Episode 7 of Private Life

The fourth episode of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole welcomes the Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, whose most recent essay for the Review, “Surely Not?,” considers how an actual “Manchurian candidate” in the White House would never dare to be as radical and widely destructive as Donald Trump has in fact been. Acknowledging the risks and limitations […]

“I came to the work of Harry Crews through word of mouth. A friend was telling me about this fucked-up guy and his book A Feast of Snakes.”

“ ‘So this is a big election for you in Italy?’ I asked her. ‘Oh my God!’ she cried, admonishing me. ‘That is an understatement!’ ”

A selection of Election Day reading from The Paris Review archive.

The Serbian Progressive Party's leader, Aleksandar Vučić, finally had a real competitor in Student List.

“Kazuo Ishiguro inhabits his characters as if there were no true Kazuo Ishiguro to be known.”

How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholicism impacted his writing: “Tolkien, it is fair to say, saw God everywhere…above all, in his art.” | Lit Hub Biography Ed Simon explores the symbol of Guy Fawkes and V for Vendetta‘s anti-authoritarian afterlives. | Lit

In a bizarre turn of events, on Wednesday November 4th, New York City’s Queens Public Library (QPL) system, which operates 66 branches, experienced an attack on its online networks by a hacker. The entire system is offline, and is being

Our friends at n+1 are back with their annual pre-yuletide gift. Bookmatch, the highly bespoke literary quiz, pairs readers with a custom-made syllabus based on their answers to a dozen or so quirky questions. Be warned: this is not Buzzfeed’s multiple

Katherine Kelaidis on Sergey Davydov and why stories of ordinary life are essential in times of political upheaval: “Hatred and division, the business of political conflict, are not the organizing principles of his inner world. Love is.” | Lit Hub

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. For centuries, sailors enduring months-long voyages would gaze out at sea mammals sunning themselves and think the thought as old as thought itself: ​ “Would.” ​ Even famously reliable Christopher

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss what President Trump may do in the remaining two years of his presidency—and how Democrats in Congress could respond.

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The carrier is more than $8.4 billion in debt, but it won’t cut its snacks.

Robots used during search and rescue operations need to be able to wriggle through narrow cracks and crevices. Researchers have turned to a natural contortionist for inspiration — the octopus.

Oyster reefs once abounded in the Chesapeake, but overharvesting slashed their populations, leading to poorer water quality and less habitat for other species. Now, researchers and local residents are finding creative ways to bring their numbers back up.

Emily Kwong and Ari Daniel of NPR's Short Wave talk about mysterious X-ray objects, the link between movement and learning and how a small part of the brain triggers memory formation.

A species of seabirds appears to become disoriented on flights back to its nest due to shifting time zones.

The Chesapeake Bay, home to blue crabs and striped bass, has a new apex predator: the blue catfish. It's invasive and voracious. It's also delicious, which officials hope might help save the bay.

REVERIE I November was almost over when I found you. The sky was blue and the trees so green. I had long been half-sleeping, tired of waiting for you, feeling you would never come. I said to everyone: look at my chest, see? My heart is livid, lifeless, rigid. And today, I say: look at […]

To Eros Because you enslave the lioness In chains stronger than Life, bound by A chain of roses around your arm. Because your body is the root, the Essential bond of divergent trunks Of pleasure and pain, sprawling plants. Because your beautiful, firm hand emerges, Like a mystic diamond brooch The most intoxicating dispute with […]

The Return The land offers the caress of a paternal greeting . . . While the mule grazes the wretched road grass and the mountain boasts before the late winter sun, like a village crone shows off her linen apron. A kind sky and a tender zephyr . . . The cicada rests burns under […]

If the sea had asked people what they wanted her to be they would have made but a muddle of her. “Peter and Rosa” by Isak Dinesen    We didn’t arrange a religious service for her, and she was a believer, Estela said. Alicia and Marta looked at each other, then they both looked at […]

Nota del editor: Este texto no es un cuento independiente, sino un fragmento que condensa los capítulos iniciales de El pudridero, novela en curso de Rafael Gumucio y continuación de Los parientes pobres (2024). En él se entrelazan la crónica de la conquista de Chile con la historia de Emilia y José Francisco, una pareja […]

A trip to the Scottish islands, a psychological experiment, a chance encounter in a drugstore… the finalists for this year’s Booker prize reveal their inspirations Who knows where a novel really comes from? I spend years gathering loose threads and then, when I feel like the cloth will hold, I start to weave them into a narrative. I suppose I began internalising John of John back in 1994, the year I went to college and chose to become a weaver myself. Continue reading...

The Indian-Irish poet on the Mahabharata retelling that inspired her to write, Arundhati Roy’s courage, and the poetry of Lucille CliftonMy earliest reading memory

Pan Macmillan and Hodder & Stoughton have both confirmed that work by the comedian and writer will be pulled, and other publishers’ books are no longer availableTwo major British publishers have confirmed they have pulled Russell Brand’s books from sale after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault.The comedian and author, 51, was found guilty at Southwark crown court on Thursday of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women. He was cleared of two furthe...

The veteran travel writer turns his eye for detail on his northern neighbour and its peoplePaul Theroux’s arrival in Canada doesn’t go well. An immigration officer called Sweeney finds a small pocketknife in his car and fines him $500 for failing to declare a weapon. “I’m going to make you famous,” he angrily tells her, stumping up. Maybe he will, with this book. Canadians are reputed to be polite and easygoing, “slaves to their courtesy”, but the country has changed enormously in recent year...

The Universe is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee; Sleep Gate by Sylvia Legris; The Other Love by Henri Cole; Stay Winter by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe The Universe Is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee (Nine Arches, £11.99)

Parmi les livres de poche parus récemment, « Le Monde des livres » vous recommande…

Pour Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999), les paroles sont autant d’armes que de moyens de dissimulation. Ses livres mettent en scène des drames, petits et grands, dont les mots sont la cause et l’instrument. Ann Jefferson, sa biographe, qui a participé à l’édition de ses œuvres complètes dans « La Pléiade », retrace son parcours et ce qui l’a amenée à s’intéresser aux blessures que nous infligent les propos des autres.

Pour son âpre premier roman, qui se déroule au fin fond d’une forêt du Suffolk, la Britannique Rowe Irvin s’est inspiré tant de Samuel Beckett que du folklore anglais.

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Pour son nouvel ouvrage, le sociologue Pierre Brasseur a enquêté sur la plateforme qui prétend être au service des créatrices de contenus sexuellement explicites. Mais en permettant à chacun de monnayer des images, elle reproduit des schémas d’exploitation.

The African Feminist Initiative (AFI) at Penn State has announced this year’s grant recipients, naming five scholars and artists whose work spans parliamentary politics in Uganda, Black womanhood in South Africa’s Diamond City, Black masculinities across three continents, women’s cultural production in the Sahel, and feminist responses to the climate crisis. In the announcement, shared […]

Nigerian author Marvellous Michael Anson, known to readers as Marve, is heading out on tour to celebrate the release of Heir of the Shadow, Book Two of her Yoruba-inspired epic fantasy trilogy Firstborn of the Sun, out on 26 November 2026. The adult epic fantasy romance returns to the Kingdom of Oru, where the exile […]

  I did not know a name could die until the day mine did. My grandmother named me Kwame, the one born on Saturday, because the sky was still grey with morning when I arrived. She said a name given at the right hour follows a child like a shadow, feeding him strength he cannot […]

South African author Diane Awerbuck has launched her new poetry collection, Fishwife, published by Modjaji Books. The launch took place on 27 October at Kalk Bay Books in Cape Town, where Awerbuck was in conversation with Charisse Louw, curator of Burning Down the House. An appreciative crowd turned out for the evening. Among them was […]

  Samuel Delgado, a Brazilian academic, is translating Nigerian poet Femi Morgan’s collection Renegade into Portuguese. The project has been under way since 2020, and is tentatively due to appear as a full book in 2027. Delgado, a researcher, literary translator and language lecturer at the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo in Guarapari, Espírito Santo, […]

Wamuwi Mbao • Fifi Bat-hef • Nondwe Mpuma • Makhosazana Xaba • Percy Zvomuya • Anthony Chennells • Percy Mabandu...

Who was Robert Mugabe, really? Robert Mugabe: The Black Victorian, Percy Zvomuya’s definitive new biography of the man who shaped—and...

Percy Zvomuya visits his former teacher, the critic Anthony Chennells, at Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare, to talk about the...

Fifi Bat-hef reviews Cape Fever by Nadia Davids, a slow-burning gothic tale of a young Cape Malay woman in service...

Yesterday in Sharjah, organizers announced the five winners of the prestigious 2026 International Award for Arabic Children’s Literature.

"At first, the story seems to revolve around familiar subjects: love, marriage, family, friendship, and the everyday lives of women in Al-Manfuhah, Riyadh. But these relationships gradually reveal a thorny question What happens when a woman begins to imagine a life that her family and society aren't t prepared to accept?"

Published by Dar al-Shorouk in January 2026, Ahmed ʿAbd al-Manʿam Ramadan’s novel “في مدينة الذباب” (In the City of Flies) presents a dystopian vision of a future city overwhelmed by accumulating rubbish and swarms of flies.

"If You Cannot Say Genocide" explores a question familiar to Palestinians: how can they talk about what is happening in Gaza without saying the exact word for it?

Forthcoming this month are poetry from Palestine and a classic by iconic Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim.