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The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

Or, Beach Book Bingo

By Emily Temple | June 12, 2024

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

Cory Leadbeater on His Life-Changing Friendship With a Literary Icon

By Cory Leadbeater | June 12, 2024

Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

“I discovered something different through the trauma. We learn to grieve by grieving.”

By Tomas Moniz | June 12, 2024

Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

Clare Pooley on Reviewers’ Tendency to Punish Novels with Dead Canines

By Clare Pooley | June 12, 2024

Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

Alan Townsend on Metamorphosis, Disintegration and Confronting His Fears As a Father

By Alan Townsend | June 12, 2024

1979’s <em>The Book-Store Book</em> documents a lost borough of booksellers.

1979’s The Book-Store Book documents a lost borough of booksellers.

By James Folta | June 11, 2024

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New literary podcasts to add to your queue.

By Brittany Allen | June 11, 2024

Here are the guest editors (and new covers!) for the Best American Series 2024.

By Literary Hub | June 11, 2024

Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

By Daniel José Older | June 11, 2024

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

Corinne Fowler Considers the Colonial Legacy of the English Countryside

By Corinne Fowler | June 11, 2024

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

Boyce Upholt on the Meaning and Use of Rivers and Other Waterways

By Boyce Upholt | June 11, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

By Rufi Thorpe | June 11, 2024

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

By James Folta | June 10, 2024

This retelling of <em>Pride & Prejudice</em> has five Mary Bennets.

This retelling of Pride & Prejudice has five Mary Bennets.

By James Folta | June 10, 2024

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Mac Crane Examines What It Means to Perform Identity on the Court

By Mac Crane | June 10, 2024

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