15 Books You Should Read This June

15 Books You Should Read This June

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | June 3, 2019

Pablo Neruda's Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

Pablo Neruda's Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

A Young Poet's Adventures in the Foreign Service

By Jamie James | June 3, 2019

The Dark Side of the <br>Chinese Dream

The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia

By Ma Jian | June 3, 2019

Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

Glimpses of the Finite and Infinite, As Translated by Paul Auster

By Philippe Petit | June 3, 2019

New York City in the 1930s, As Seen Through the Lens of Berenice Abbott

New York City in the 1930s, As Seen Through the Lens of Berenice Abbott

From a New Compilation of Her Work

By Berenice Abbott | June 3, 2019

Your weekly book deal memo: the Jonas Brothers, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, & more

Your weekly book deal memo: the Jonas Brothers, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, & more

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2019

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  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

On the Existential Fear of Losing Your Online Persona

By Alex Sujong Laughlin | May 31, 2019

How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

By Lisa Duggan | May 31, 2019

Ece Temelkuran's 7 Taxonomies of Global Populism

By Keen On | May 31, 2019

The 13 Best Book Covers of May

The 13 Best Book Covers of May

Are Those Stars in Your Eyes?

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2019

Why Would Anyone Choose to Run 100 Miles Through the Desert?

Why Would Anyone Choose to Run 100 Miles Through the Desert?

Adharanand Finn on Striving for the Edges of Human Endurance

By Adharanand Finn | May 31, 2019

Were Libraries Borges's Universe or the Other Way Around?

Were Libraries Borges's Universe or the Other Way Around?

Rodrigo Fresan and Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Reading Jorge Luis Borges

By Literary Hub | May 31, 2019

The Radical Bookseller: Toward a Green New Deal in Publishing

The Radical Bookseller: Toward a Green New Deal in Publishing

Lucy Kogler Has a Modest Proposal

By Lucy Kogler | May 31, 2019

<em>Then It Fell Apart</em>: Moby has cancelled his book tour.

Then It Fell Apart: Moby has cancelled his book tour.

By Jessie Gaynor | May 30, 2019

There's a TV adaptation of <em>Normal People</em>, and it just started filming

There's a TV adaptation of Normal People, and it just started filming

By Emily Temple | May 30, 2019

When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

Matt Tompkins on People Who Talk to Dead People (and the People Who Study Them)

By Matt Tompkins | May 30, 2019

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