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This Week in Literary History:
O. Henry is Released from Prison

“If he had simply gone back to Austin when he was summoned to stand trial, he would have been acquitted.”
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A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers

Henry Power Considers Theories on the Authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.

For Robert Moor, Readers Are Quickly Losing the Line Between the Idea of a Book and the Book Itself
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Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to Their Inner Child

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of It Will Come Back to You

A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age

By Fiona Sampson

The Old Streets of Athens: On Living and Dying Away From One’s Homeland

By Natalie Bakopoulos

How Leprosy Was Used as a Weapon Against Hawaii’s Indigenous Population

By Oliver Basciano

What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture

By Lucy Schiller

Chef Nephi Craig on the Power and Importance of Preserving Native Cuisines

By Nephi Craig

There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel

By Steven W. Thrasher

Why PEN America Will Not Defend You Against Anti-BDS Legislation

By Dinaw Mengestu

Nostos, or Homecoming: Why I Keep Returning to the Odyssey

By Rose Smith

Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings?

By Catherine Ostler

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Nine Feminist Mythological Reimaginings to Read After You Watch The Odyssey

By Tanaz Bhathena

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Emily Doyle on the Subtle Tyranny of Realism

By Emily Doyle

Labor of Love: On Editing and the Rewards of Collaborative Effort

By Samantha Paige Rosen

This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published

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A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents to Holden Caulfield

By Janet Phillips

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Crime Reads

July 20, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

Seicho Matsumoto's A Quiet Place Is a Dark Fairy-Tale of Post-War Japan

By Pico Iyer

20 Speculative Thrillers to Get You Through the Rest of 2026

By Molly Odintz

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

By Jack Parlett

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

By David Baerwald

Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America

By Matthew Wolfe

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

By Megan Marshall

Why Can’t the Public Sector Pick Up Our Trash?

By Simon Paré-Poupart

Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood vs. Joseph Shires

By Zach St. George

Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim

By Jo Scott-Coe

The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event

By Sophia Smith Galer