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An Ode to the Lost Generation: Adam Gopnik on The Sun Also Rises at 100

"We reread [it] for streets and tastes and trout and wine bottles and for the unprettified truth of what war wounds are."
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A History of the American Nepo Baby

Nancy Isenberg on the Pervasive Nepotism in US Politics
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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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Daniel Miyares on How To Say Goodbye in Cuban

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The Russian Defector Who Plundered the Amazon For American Drug Companies

By Matt O'Hara

10 Great Debut Novels You Might Have Missed in 2026

By Maris Kreizman

Eight Books That Help Us Understand Multiracial America

By Karabi Acharya

The Annotated Nightstand: What Katrina Dodson is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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What is the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time? Day Three

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Tom Drury on Writing from Flyover Country

By Tom Drury

10 Books on the Birth of Modern New York

By David Conrad-Pérez

How the Author of Aladdin Got Erased From History

By Matthew Teller

Five Books About World War II for Young Readers

By Stuart Gibbs

What is the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time? Day Two

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The Enduring Genius of Janet Malcolm

By Eve Sneider

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

November 12, 2026

The Giggler: The forgotten serial killer who haunted Boston's South Station

By Don Stradley

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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6 Mysteries Set on Generation Ships

By Molly Odintz

7 essential 1970s NYC noir books and films

By Rosanne Limoncelli

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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

By Teddy Wayne

Karen Olsson on Writing About the Endangered Species of South Texas

By Jane Ciabattari

Former New York Times Romance Columnist Olivia Waite on Her Firing

By Zachary Fletcher

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

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

On the Film NAZA and the Ethics of Documentary Art

By Steven W. Thrasher

Andreas Malm has been barred from entering the UK over his solidarity with Palestine.

By James Folta

17 Books About Native American Culture to Read This November

By David Congdon

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