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Summer’s in the air! Here are the 28 novels the Lit Hub staff thinks you should read this season. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the lives of Roman and Mesoamerican dynasties, featuring “star wars,” stingray-pierced penises, and disease-spreading steam baths. | Lit Hub History
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“A feared leader is often a powerful one. But too much fear can paralyze the bureaucracy.” Chun Han Wong on Xi Jingping’s purges. | Lit Hub Politics
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On the lovable unlikability of Jane Austen’s Emma Woodhouse. | Lit Hub
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Laura Tillman talks to her mentor and former teacher, Suzannah Lessard, about crafting nonfiction that takes risks. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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“T(Sakakawea)ish was not a Shoshoni. She was a Hidatsa.” What white history got wrong about Sacagawea. | New York Review of Books
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The history of nepo babies. | New Yorker
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Casting call for Will Sharpe’s adaptation of Crying in H Mart! | Rolling Stone
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Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel have won this year’s International Booker Prize. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: How a fabulist painting showed Jenny Fran Davis the cover of Dykette • Kate Lebo on the recipe writer’s dilemma • Read from Dino Buzzati’s newly translated novel, The Stronghold (tr. Larry Venuti)
