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James Folta on Holding the Line Against AI Experimentation
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long Friendship

Roger Berkowitz Explores an Often-Overshadowed Side of the German-American Political Theorist

What Lies Behind a Blank Wall? On the Myriad Hidden Meanings of White Paint

By Wendy S. Walters

Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson

By Al Sharpton

On Medieval Europe’s Systemic Slaughter of Nonconformist Women

By Eleanor Johnson

The Real Reason the Rent Is Too Damn High: Greed-Driven Corporate Algorithms

By Lindsay Owens

What My Relationship With a Rescue Raccoon Taught Me About Myself

By Paul Bochner

How Newspapers Helped Democratize Knowledge and Civic Participation

By James Marriott

The Work of Witnessing: On New Ukrainian Lit by Artur Dron, Andriy Lyubka, and Lena Lyagushonkova

By Oksana Lutsyshyna

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

By Teddy Wayne

Adam Johnson on the Many Ways To Tell a Single Story

By The Center for Fiction

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A Reckoning With Civilization Itself: How the Genocide in Gaza Reshaped the Middle East

By Marwan Bishara

Bonnie Garmus on Writing a Coming-of-Age Novel of Poets and Poetry

By Jane Ciabattari

Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories

By Bonnie Jo Campbell

March 5, 1933: The Election That Destroyed German Democracy

By Timothy Ryback

From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction

By Deesha Philyaw

Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

October 14, 2026

Picture This: True Tales of Illustrated Thrillers

By Jason Rekulak

The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By Lyndsay Faye

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best True Crime of the Month: October 2026

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Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Jérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher

By Mark Polizzotti

Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”

By Alice Elliott Dark

Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World

By Kimberly Blaeser

Writing in Times of War: Oleksandr Mykhed on Losing Ukrainian Books to Russian Bombs

By Oleksandr Mykhed

Leah C. Stokes Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth with Bill McKibben

By Bill McKibben

An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence

By Daniel Peña

What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right

By Rodrigo Nunes

A Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics

By Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano

What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey