Here’s what’s been making us happy this week. Another Friday, another opportunity for gratitude. We at Lit Hub have been living to laugh and laughing to live. Two weeks ago, Drew Broussard went to see an author friend (Sam Rebelein) read a chunk of his new novel aloud

Here’s what’s been making us happy this week.: Another Friday, another opportunity for gratitude. We at Lit Hub have been living to laugh and laughing to live. Two weeks ago, Drew Broussard went to see an author friend (Sam Rebelein) read a chunk of his new novel aloud #ArtandPhotography #Events

In Defense of Pet Portraiture as a Worthy Art Form A professor once assigned me to select and watch over a small plot of land in the city. I was to take weekly notes on its changes, so as to understand the site’s history and record the details of its

In Defense of Pet Portraiture as a Worthy Art Form: A professor once assigned me to select and watch over a small plot of land in the city. I was to take weekly notes on its changes, so as to understand the site’s history and record the details of its #ArtandPhotography #CraftandAdvice

A new series on Charles Dickens takes your favorite Victorian novelist to the streets. This year, the United Kingdom has made books a special cause. The National Year of Reading is a twelve month, government-sponsored campaign to get the citizenry hyped about reading for pleasure. And as our stateside feds scheme to restrict library

A new series on Charles Dickens takes your favorite Victorian novelist to the streets.: This year, the United Kingdom has made books a special cause. The National Year of Reading is a twelve month, government-sponsored campaign to get the citizenry hyped about reading… #ArtandPhotography #Biography

DIY Creativity: What Conserving Art and Writing Fiction Have in Common I’m at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), standing beside the workstation of the art conservator who answered my research inquiry a couple months earlier. We’re chatting through the steps involved in restoring a painting, and she shows me the

DIY Creativity: What Conserving Art and Writing Fiction Have in Common: I’m at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), standing beside the workstation of the art conservator who answered my research inquiry a couple months earlier. We’re chatting through the steps… #ArtandPhotography #CraftandAdvice

Who’s behind London’s hottest new bookstore? Freud’s librarian grandson! Well, “great-great grandson,” to be technical about it. Jonah Freud, heir to the founder of psychoanalysis, is taking London by storm. The entrepreneur recently linked to Lily Allen is one of the two impresarios behind Reference Point, a London bookshop

Who’s behind London’s hottest new bookstore? Freud’s librarian grandson!: Well, “great-great grandson,” to be technical about it. Jonah Freud, heir to the founder of psychoanalysis, is taking London by storm. The entrepreneur recently linked to Lily Allen… #ArtandPhotography #BookstoresandLibraries

Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar. In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new adaptation of Plath’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Bell Jar.

Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar.: In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish… #ArtandPhotography #BookNews

The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time I wonder if Shigeru Miyamoto had any inkling that his early doodles of a mustachioed guy in a cap and overalls would become one of the most recognizable characters in the world. At the time Donkey Kong was released, the

The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time: I wonder if Shigeru Miyamoto had any inkling that his early doodles of a mustachioed guy in a cap and overalls would become one of the most recognizable characters in the world. At the time Donkey Kong was… #ArtandPhotography #Design

On Creating the Cover For David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Sometimes, the cover of a book has its own story. In 1992, Michael Pietsch, a young editor at Little, Brown and Company acquired the rights to David Foster Wallace’s novel, Infinite Jest. After years of editing, what was to become

On Creating the Cover For David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: Sometimes, the cover of a book has its own story. In 1992, Michael Pietsch, a young editor at Little, Brown and Company acquired the rights to David Foster Wallace’s novel, Infinite Jest. After years of… #ArtandPhotography #Design

Euromaidan: The Day Ukraine Rose Up For Democracy A Brief History of a Long War, published in Ukraine in 2025, is already the most successful graphic novel in Ukrainian history, with the highest number of translations and print runs. The concept and production of the book were carried

Euromaidan: The Day Ukraine Rose Up For Democracy: A Brief History of a Long War, published in Ukraine in 2025, is already the most successful graphic novel in Ukrainian history, with the highest number of translations and print runs. The concept and production of the… #ArtandPhotography #Features

Need a manuscript critique? This literary auction is raising money to support Minnesotans. In further news of book people showing up for each other, and for the rest of us, a dedicated group of publishing and culture workers has organized an auction to raise funds in support of communities terrorized by ICE and DHS.

Need a manuscript critique? This literary auction is raising money to support Minnesotans.: In further news of book people showing up for each other, and for the rest of us, a dedicated group of publishing and culture workers has organized an auction to raise funds in… #ArtandPhotography #BookNews

Here’s what’s making us happy this week. Given: it’s another tough one out there, people. In the Northeast, there’s talk of a world-historical blizzard. Meanwhile actual ICE is hunting our neighbors—or they will be, very soon. I still think it’s crucial to lift up the light in

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.: Given: it’s another tough one out there, people. In the Northeast, there’s talk of a world-historical blizzard. Meanwhile actual ICE is hunting our neighbors—or they will be, very soon. I still think it’s crucial to lift up the… #ArtandPhotography #Design

The NYPL has acquired Tom Verlaine’s archive. Which other rock stars live on at the library? Patience and Fortitude have a new, freaky playmate. Tom Verlaine, the late livewire best known as frontman for the proto-punk band Television, has left his remaining archive to the NYPL. According to Fine Books & Collections, six decades of Verlaine

The NYPL has acquired Tom Verlaine’s archive. Which other rock stars live on at the library?: Patience and Fortitude have a new, freaky playmate. Tom Verlaine, the late livewire best known as frontman for the proto-punk band Television, has left his remaining archive… #ArtandPhotography #Biography

France and Mexico celebrated their friendiversary by exchanging ancient books. At a recent meeting, French president Emmanuel Macron and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum conducted a highly symbolic book swap. To commemorate years of diplomatic relation—and sure, with an eye to continued trade—France and Mexico exchanged two ancient manuscripts: the Codex

France and Mexico celebrated their friendiversary by exchanging ancient books.: At a recent meeting, French president Emmanuel Macron and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum conducted a highly symbolic book swap. To commemorate years of diplomatic relation—and sure,… #ArtandPhotography #BookNews

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors ________________________________ From Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans. Copyright © 2025. Available from Verso Books.

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors: ________________________________ From Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans. Copyright © 2025. Available from Verso Books. #ArtandPhotography #Biography

Making Meaning: Why Symbolic Interpretation Matters in Art and Literature Among my favorite works exhibited in the Scaife Galleries of my hometown Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art is a beguiling, enigmatic, and beautiful 1956 painting by René Magritte entitled Le Coeur du Monde—“The Heart of the World.” Completed after Magritte

Making Meaning: Why Symbolic Interpretation Matters in Art and Literature: Among my favorite works exhibited in the Scaife Galleries of my hometown Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art is a beguiling, enigmatic, and beautiful 1956 painting by René Magritte… #ArtandPhotography #CraftandAdvice

A Mirror to Society: On Lee Friedlander’s Many American Christmases Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Friedlander shows us here. As in all of the work he has

A Mirror to Society: On Lee Friedlander’s Many American Christmases: Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Friedlander shows… #ArtandPhotography #Features

Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists? There might not be a more natural, if also more fraught, complementary profession to artistry than criticism. Who, after all, would have a better perspective on the necessary background and unique challenges of making art than some-one who does it

Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?: There might not be a more natural, if also more fraught, complementary profession to artistry than criticism. Who, after all, would have a better perspective on the necessary background and unique… #ArtandPhotography #CraftandAdvice

Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them In April 2023, George Black wrote in an introduction to his reading list on these pages that “something like thirty thousand books have been written about ‘the Vietnam War.’”He limited his reading list to the American War, not the French.

Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them: In April 2023, George Black wrote in an introduction to his reading list on these pages that “something like thirty thousand books have been written about ‘the… #ArtandPhotography #Features

An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos. Publishing people used to corner the market on yuletide bacchanals. You hear stories. Decadence was expected. HR, AWOL. In last year’s Cut, Emily Gould interviewed partygoers from previous epochs and turned up all sorts of outrageous anecdotes. Back in the

An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos.: Publishing people used to corner the market on yuletide bacchanals. You hear stories. Decadence was expected. HR, AWOL. In last year’s Cut, Emily Gould interviewed partygoers from previous epochs and… #ArtandPhotography #Design

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist? In literature, the execution of a work of art happens on the page, at the desk. In my debut novel, Deep Burn, the characters are artists and curators—people working in photography, film, painting, public installation. Their art gets them out

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?: In literature, the execution of a work of art happens on the page, at the desk. In my debut novel, Deep Burn, the characters are artists and curators—people working in photography, film, painting, public installation.… #ArtandPhotography #CraftandAdvice

Here’s what’s making us happy this week. This week, Lit Hub ate buffet style. We followed individual whims, and satisfied diverse appetites. Literally? We gamed, we read, and we giggled. Emily Temple’s nice thing of the week was music. Says our managing editor: “After years of being

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.: This week, Lit Hub ate buffet style. We followed individual whims, and satisfied diverse appetites. Literally? We gamed, we read, and we giggled. Emily Temple’s nice thing of the week was music. Says our managing editor:… #ArtandPhotography #Biography

Stravinsky in the Desert: Playing Piano Under Big West Texas Skies When Donald Judd moved to Marfa, a small desert town on the edge of Texas, he turned it into a living experiment. Artists like Robert Irwin, John Chamberlain, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and others followed, each exploring how space could

Stravinsky in the Desert: Playing Piano Under Big West Texas Skies: When Donald Judd moved to Marfa, a small desert town on the edge of Texas, he turned it into a living experiment. Artists like Robert Irwin, John Chamberlain, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and others… #ArtandPhotography #Features

The Magic of Marvel: How We Met the Avengers, Doctor Strange, Daredevil and Others If there’s one thing comic book fans enjoy, it’s discussing their favorite characters and stories with anyone who will listen (or read), debating the finer points of the stories and the art, and speculating about what comics or creators might

The Magic of Marvel: How We Met the Avengers, Doctor Strange, Daredevil and Others: If there’s one thing comic book fans enjoy, it’s discussing their favorite characters and stories with anyone who will listen (or read), debating the finer points of the… #ArtandPhotography #CraftandCriticism

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Two books with AI-generated covers have been disqualified from New Zealand’s top book prize. Somewhere on the goofy/sad spectrum in AI slop news, today two novels up for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Award were disqualified on the basis of their AI cover art. Obligate Carnivore, a story collection by Stephanie Johnson, and

Two books with AI-generated covers have been disqualified from New Zealand’s top book prize.: Somewhere on the goofy/sad spectrum in AI slop news, today two novels up for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Award were disqualified on the basis of their AI cover… #ArtandPhotography #BookNews

How Philly Businessman Albert Barnes Changed the Life of “Unsellable” Expressionist Artist Chaim Soutine By the end of 1923 Chaim Soutine was known on both sides of the Atlantic as a formidable painter. He had an allowance from Zborowski of twenty-five francs a day and a personal chauffeur paid for by the dealer. Young

How Philly Businessman Albert Barnes Changed the Life of “Unsellable” Expressionist Artist Chaim Soutine: By the end of 1923 Chaim Soutine was known on both sides of the Atlantic as a formidable painter. He had an allowance from Zborowski of twenty-five francs a day… #ArtandPhotography #Biography

The Fire Within: On the Graphic Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road “A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eight million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature

The Fire Within: On the Graphic Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: “A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eight million degrees… #ArtandPhotography #CraftandCriticism

Edge of Humanity Magazine features photographer Ana Cichowicz

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Edge of Humanity Magazine features photographer Ana Cichowicz

#streetphotography #photoessay #everydaylife #urbanphotography #contemporaryphotography #documentaryphotography #artandphotography #visualanthropology #migrationstories #philosophyandart