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A return to Middle Earth, the first of two Pinocchio adaptations, and a K-Drama adaptation (loosely) based on Little Women all feature in the literary film and TV you should stream in September. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Enjoy this brief history of photography told through—wait for it—antique dog portraits. | Lit Hub Art & Photography
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On the Supreme Court’s dark, theocratic turn. | Lit Hub Politics
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Considering French literature in the #MeToo era, through texts that “show that women can be both victims and agents in control of their stories.” | Lit Hub
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Ten new crime and mystery novels to check out this September. | CrimeReads
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Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
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Keziah Weir looks at the wave of follow-ups to Pulitzer Prize-winning novels—from Less Is Lost to The Candy House. | Vanity Fair
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“This was not about a broken system; this was about a marvelously efficient system that was doing exactly what it was supposed to do.” Hugh Ryan talks to Naomi Gordon-Loebl about his book The Women’s House of Detention and the queer politics of abolition. | The Nation
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Jessica Winter explores the long-standing debate over children’s literacy, and the systemic problems with public education. | The New Yorker
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“In writing about her own experiences, Davis captures why so many of her peers became radicalized.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the significance of Angela Davis: An Autobiography. | NYRB
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Maia Kobabe talks to Madeleine Carlisle about efforts to ban eir book in Virginia and elsewhere. | TIME
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Breaking down the problems with personal finance books. | The Atlantic
Also on Lit Hub: How maple syrup preserves Native culture • Elisa Gabbert on capturing beginner’s luck • Read from Lauren Acampora’s latest novel, The Hundred Waters
