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The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs

Emily McBride Considers the Different Ways Mothers and Children Inhabit Urban Space
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Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Carly Mattox on Half His Age, A Girl’s Story, and Her Own Experience
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

From One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Shards
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How Christian Europe Learned to Fear the Forest—and the Beasts Within

Cal Flyn Explores Medieval Europeans’ Evolving Relationship With the Wilderness

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

By Meaghan Beatley

Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

By Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

Tracy Borman Recommends Books To Make You Fall In Love With the Tudors

By Tracy Borman

Orna Guralnik on Listening for the Unconscious

By The Critic and Her Publics

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter

This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

By Literary Hub

Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

By Craig Morgan Teicher

The 13 Best Book Covers of July

By Emily Temple

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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Read the First Reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

By Book Marks

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

By Book Marks

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks

Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Switch Writers’ Groups?

By Kristen Arnett

Preventing WWIII in Europe’s
New Cold War

By Hannah Lucinda Smith

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

August 4, 2026

The Allure of Society Thrillers

By Debbie Baldwin

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of August 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

By Lizzie Buehler

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

By Book Marks

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

By The Critic and Her Publics

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t

By H. Keith Melton and Nigel West

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

By D/Annie Liontas

Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now

By Edna Bonhomme

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

By Literary Hub

Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now

By Edna Bonhomme