Eight Books You Should Read in July

Eight Books You Should Read in July

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | July 7, 2020

Nerd Jeopardy's Grand Finale! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

Nerd Jeopardy's Grand Finale! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

Hosted by Ryan Chapman

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 7, 2020

On Family Secrets and How We Deliver Bad News

On Family Secrets and How We Deliver Bad News

Rachel Beanland: When Silence Isn't Always a Kindness

By Rachel Beanland | July 7, 2020

Antibody: Starring Brit Bennett, Michele Filgate, and Lynn Steger Strong

Antibody: Starring Brit Bennett, Michele Filgate, and Lynn Steger Strong

With Your Host Brian Gresko

By The Antibody Reading Series | July 7, 2020

<em>Tin House</em> leads the latest VIDA Count (again), with <em>NYTBR</em> gaining ground.

Tin House leads the latest VIDA Count (again), with NYTBR gaining ground.

By Aaron Robertson | July 6, 2020

Look inside Oslo's stunning new public library, now open to the public.

Look inside Oslo's stunning new public library, now open to the public.

By Emily Temple | July 6, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Dana Canedy has been named the executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster.

By Emily Temple | July 6, 2020

On Hilary Mantel's birthday, please enjoy her 1988 review of RoboCop.

By Emily Temple | July 6, 2020

Even Seamus Heaney
Made Mistakes

By Erica McAlpine | July 6, 2020

In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

Anthony Grafton: When Writing Could Be Back-Breaking Work

By Anthony Grafton | July 6, 2020

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

Jeremy Woody on Life in the State Prison, as Told to Christie Thompson

By Jeremy Woody | July 6, 2020

From the Start, Maxine Waters Wasn't Playing Games

From the Start, Maxine Waters Wasn't Playing Games

"I don't take insults no matter what."

By Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman | July 6, 2020

WATCH: Best of the Sun Valley Writer’s Conference, with A. Scott Berg

WATCH: Best of the Sun Valley Writer’s Conference, with A. Scott Berg

Episode Three of SVWC NOW, Features the Biographer in Conversation with Anne Taylor Fleming

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 6, 2020

Life in the Border Zones of Violence

Life in the Border Zones of Violence

Driving Through Flag Country

By Nimmi Gowrinathan | July 2, 2020

Dear Black America: <br> A Letter From Tracy K. Smith

Dear Black America:
A Letter From Tracy K. Smith

"We revel in the depth and the flair and the belief and the secrecy of Blackness."

By Tracy K. Smith | July 2, 2020

The <em>New Yorker</em> Article Heard Round the World

The New Yorker Article Heard Round the World

Revisiting John Hersey's Groundbreaking "Hiroshima"

By Greg Mitchell | July 2, 2020

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