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How the Telephone Changed the World

James Gleick Explores the Technological and Cultural Impact of an Invention That Transformed Civilization
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What is the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time?

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Science Friction: An Argument for More Sex in Sci-Fi

Adam Peterson Makes the Case for Sexual Desire in Space
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Inside Eudora Welty's Home in Jackson, Mississippi

Monica Nelson Considers the Ways the Quintessentially Southern Writer's Life Intersected With the Region's Dark History

The Enduring Genius of Janet Malcolm

By Eve Sneider

My Electric Journey Out of Darkness: 10 Books on Electroconvulsive Therapy

By Ted Scheinman

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

By Teddy Wayne

Why Do We Sing?

By Lauren Elkin

Karen Olsson on Writing About the Endangered Species of South Texas

By Jane Ciabattari

How Online Fandom Made Me a Writer

By Maria Millage

This Week in Literary History: America’s First Lending Library Gets its First Ten Members

By Literary Hub

Writing Iran’s January Massacre
in a Non-Mother Tongue

By poupeh missaghi, Moeen Farrokhi, Neshat Sadatmansoori, Pooneh Yekta, and A.T. Pouladi

Olivia Laing on Chronicling the World of 1970s Italian Cinema

By The Center for Fiction

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17 Books About Native American Culture to Read This November

By David Congdon

Watching The Librarians With Librarians During Banned Books Week

By Sean Rusev

Who Gets to Write About Ordinary Life?

By Katherine Kelaidis

How Neuroscience Can Give Paralyzed People The Chance to Speak Again

By Anna Chambers

”Arabic Music,” a Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

By Mahmoud Darwish

Priyanka Kumar on Incorporating Art Into Her Nature Writing

By Priyanka Kumar

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

November 9, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

6 Mysteries Set on Generation Ships

By Molly Odintz

7 essential 1970s NYC noir books and films

By Rosanne Limoncelli

Seeking Justice in Deep South Georgia

By J. Tom Morgan

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

What It Means To Be a Basque Writer

By Kirmen Uribe

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

By Book Marks

Hanif Abdurraqib on the Lessons of June Jordan

By Hanif Abdurraqib

On the Film NAZA and the Ethics of Documentary Art

By Steven W. Thrasher

Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture is launching a fund to save small presses affected by the war.

By Brittany Allen

How Austerity is Killing Higher Ed
(and What We Can Do About It)

By Peter Coviello

The Olfactory History of Book Collecting

By Will Tullett

The Pioneering Journalist Who Met With Nazi War Criminals Ahead of Their Prosecution

By Natalie Livingstone

This Week in Literary History: Sinclair Lewis Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

By Literary Hub