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What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? The Final Matchup

Either Way, We’re in Fantasy Land
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What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Five

Out of the Park and Clueless-less
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It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.

Maris Kreizman on the Increasingly Impossible Job of the Editor
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Molly Crabapple on History as a Necromantic Art

And Ten Tips to Help Your Conjuring

When (and Why) Exactly Did Elon Musk Make His Hard Turn to the Right?

By Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

On the Unique and Ongoing Relationship Between Bob Dylan and the Beatles

By Jim Windolf

How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma

By Grace Spulak

This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity

By Literary Hub

In the Parlors of Black Bibliophiles: How Arturo Schomburg Built a Library and Made History

By Laura E. Helton

The Scent of Rebellion: How Cannabis Became the Drug of Choice For the Counterculture

By Jeremy Narby

“Brevity is the fuse attached to every breath,” a Poem by Bob Hicock

By Bob Hicok

Danielle Bainbridge on Defying the Formula to Find Your Form

By Memoir Nation

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

By Book Marks

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Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet... Or All of the Above?

By Antony Beevor

On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)

By Luke Goebel

What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself

By Leise Hook

God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception

By Samira K. Mehta

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Khong is Reading Now, And Next

By Diana Arterian

What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Four

By Literary Hub

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

April 20, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best International Fiction of April 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Writing in the Interim Language: Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini in Conversation

By Chiara Barzini

This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London

By Literary Hub

Aja Gabel on Love and Grief

By Aja Gabel

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta

Here’s what’s been making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen

On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East

By Steven W. Thrasher

How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

By Ed Simon

On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

By Virginia McGee Richards

On the Global Conspiracy to Make Childcare More Expensive

By Alex Mayyasi