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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

Are Shakespeare’s Commas Really That Important?

By Daniel Hahn

The Power of Prophecy, from Apollo to AI

By Carissa Véliz

Jayne Anne Phillips Wonders What Happens to Writers If They Don’t Write?

By Jayne Anne Phillips

Have We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency?

By Megan Garber

A Poem by Christopher Kondrich

By Christopher Kondrich

Pollinating Our Stories: What Honeybees Taught Me About Writing

By Eileen Garvin

Becca Rothfeld (with Herman Melville and John Updike)

By The Writers Institute

On the Crazy 1963 Tour That Established the Rolling Stones’ Bad Boy Image

By Bob Spitz

Why We All Hate the Word “Moist” So Much

By Valerie Fridland

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Jayne Anne Phillips on Chronicling Her West Virginia Upbringing and Writer’s Journey

By Jane Ciabattari

How Lewis and Clark Invented the Western

By Craig Fehrman

Eight Books About Women With Secret Lives

By Bonnie Friedman

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

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

April 20, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best International Fiction of April 2026

By Molly Odintz

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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

By Luke Goebel

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

By Diana Arterian

Polly Barton on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude

By Polly Barton

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

By Literary Hub

On the Systematic Annihilation of Gaza’s Educational Future

By Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi

Of the Many Types of Roman Gladiator, Some Were Definitely Women

By Harry Sidebottom

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

By Antony Beevor

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

By Samira K. Mehta

Of the Many Types of Roman Gladiator, Some Were Definitely Women

By Harry Sidebottom