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John Green Gives Himself Permission to Suck

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How Heated Rivalry Imagines a More Inclusive NHL

Daniel Gawthrop on the Explosive Popularity of the Queer Hockey Phenomenon
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Isabel Allende on Finding the Freedom to Write

The House of the Spirits Started Out as a Letter to Allende’s Grandfather

The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

The Joy of Eavesdropping as a Bookseller in an English Seaside Town

By Katie Clapham

Fady Joudah’s Meditation on Language and Time Under Genocide

By Bilal Urick

How Weimar Germany’s Proportional Democracy Put Hitler in Power

By Dana Bash and David Fisher

What Learning to Paint and Reading The Elements of Style Have in Common

By Susan Coll

In Praise of Lost Time: On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology

By Laura Kolbe

How the Digital Attention Economy Has Taken Over Our Real-World Lives

By David Pakman

What We Lose in the Face of Extinction

By Neil Griffin

Opening the Door: On the Secrets Old Buildings Can Keep

By Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework

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Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

By Ed Simon

On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone

By Simon Warrack

The Archive Talks Back: Eight Books That Wrest Humanity From the Record

By Emerson Whitney

“Teaching Speech,” a Poem by Laura Kolbe

By Laura Kolbe

How Romance Novels Filled in the Gaps Left by Sex Ed

By Caroline Eubanks

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

September 23, 2026

The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: September 2026

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Iceland Noir: A Roundtable Discussion

By Molly Odintz

The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Month: September 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Who Are MFA Workshops Really For?

By Devon Halliday

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

By Teddy Wayne

The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

By Gabe Bullard

On Falling Out of Love With Moscow

By Svetlana Satchkova

On the Orientalism and Imperial Gaze of Western Horror Films

By Youssef Rakha

The War on Terror Through the Eyes of Queer Afghan Refugees

By Steven W. Thrasher

Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States

By Sun Yung Shin

Could this James Baldwin typewriter be an okay use of AI?

By James Folta

This Week in Literary History: John Keats Writes “To Autumn”

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