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March 6, 2025, 2:31pm As reported by Richie Assaly in the Toronto Star yesterday, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre—the largest queer theater company in the world—is among 18 theater and performing arts organizations that have joined a “cultural and academic boycott” of Israel: On Wednesday, Buddies—the world’s largest queer theatre company—and other organizations including Theatre

March 6, 2025, 1:53pm Folks, the time has come to stop linking to Amazon. For good. Article continues after advertisement If you’re reading this site, you likely already knew this in your heart. And I’m actually not here to give you the litany of reasons why Amazon’s extractive capitalism, aggressive union-busting, take-no-prisoners monopolization of not

March 6, 2025, 11:42am Putting together our bracket to determine the best villain in literature brought up a lot of existential questions about villains: What makes a good one? Can a character be villainous without being an antagonist? What even is a villain? I dipped into the Lit Hub archives for some answers. 🗡 🗡

March 6, 2025, 9:28am Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1806, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born.  Who’s the baddest of the bad? Help us crown the Best Villain in Literature by voting for your favorite scoundrels and rogues in our Ides of March Madness bracket! | Lit Hub Ted Chiang revisits J.D. Beresford’s The Hampdenshire

Welcome to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket:The Best Villains in Literature. Article continues after advertisement Everyone loves a good villain—at least when they’re safely fictional—but which literary villains are the best? And which one deserves the title of the Greatest Literary Villain Of All Time? We need your help to decide. Voting

In the middle of a war, there is little past or future, little perspective, little accurate prediction: there is only the white heat of the moment, the immediacy of perception, the intensity of emotions, including anger, dismay, and fear. In her tragically unfinished book—written from the center of Russia’s appalling and brutal campaign to annihilate

J.D. Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder is generally considered to be the first fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, or “superintelligence.” This is a familiar trope for readers of science fiction today, but when the novel was originally published in 1911 it was anything but. What intellectual soil needed to be tilled before this idea could sprout?