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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

From One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Shards
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How Christian Europe Learned to Fear the Forest—and the Beasts Within

Cal Flyn Explores Medieval Europeans’ Evolving Relationship With the Wilderness
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Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

Katherine Harvey on Healthy Living in the Middle Ages
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What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Jane Ciabattari on the Prizewinning Chronicler of New York City’s Journey Through Genre

The 13 Best Book Covers of July

By Emily Temple

Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

By Chelsea Rathburn

Read the First Reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

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July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

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July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Switch Writers’ Groups?

By Kristen Arnett

Preventing WWIII in Europe’s
New Cold War

By Hannah Lucinda Smith

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

By Roger Celestin

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

By Fiction Non Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

By Sarai Walker

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

By Joseph Ogilvy

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 31, 2026

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of August 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Man Who Became Electricity's First Human Test Subject

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

By Lizzie Buehler

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

By Book Marks

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

By The Critic and Her Publics

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t

By H. Keith Melton and Nigel West

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

By D/Annie Liontas

Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now

By Edna Bonhomme

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

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Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now

By Edna Bonhomme