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Here are ten great nonfiction titles to read this August, featuring books by Dave Zirin, Claudia Rankine, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, and more. lithub.com/10-great-non...
10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August
From the hard, hard courts of professional tennis to the mean screens of social media to the life and times of an iconic indie rock songwriter, this month has something for everyone. * Matthew Futt…
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Why humans love when a dog tells the story. lithub.com/on-the-poeti...
On the Poetics of Canine Narration
They tread a landscape existentially threatened by human wreckage yet are drawn to their fellow species, intriguing and strangely self-destructive. They decipher human scents, collaborate with peop…
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If you're struggling to write, maybe you just need some help from Rumpelstiltskin. lithub.com/rumpelstilts...
Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion
A few years ago, scrolling through social media when I should have been writing, I came across a photo of the Lady Bird edition of Rumpelstiltskin. Struggling to remember the specifics of the story…
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“I was born near water.” Read from Paul Yoon’s new novel, Etna. buff.ly/DdTe8QV
Etna
Look! See the dogs . . . * I was born near water. I was born on a farm where many other dogs and other animals were born and cared for and lived. I would never learn what the farm was intending to …
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The 22 new books out today include titles by Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more! buff.ly/gonryRL
Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today!
The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. T…
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These books by Gun-Britt Sundström, Kelly Link, Marie Helene Bertino and others complicate the marriage plot. buff.ly/nhwrqKf
Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List
For the past six years, I’ve been working on a project that I describe to strangers and casual acquaintances as “a book about flowers,” and to friends and family as “a book about flowers and my not…
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"It was the high schoolers, more than the university students, who staged the boldest occupations." Meet the Chilean student activists fighting in the name of public education. buff.ly/gyaCY1G
The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile
On a crisp March day in 2013, the beginning of the antipodal fall, Sofía Brito walked through a wrought iron fence, up a short flight of stairs, and between the slender salmon columns leading into t…
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These books by C.J. Sansom, Hilary Mantel, Stephen Alford and more will help shape your Tudor obsession. buff.ly/4N4aZ1T
Tracy Borman Recommends Books To Make You Fall In Love With the Tudors
It’s been a joy imagining the world of Anne Boleyn and her family for my new novel, The House of Boleyn. I loved immersing myself in their beautiful home, Hever Castle—the place where they retreate…
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Why mothers with babies are the ultimate flâneurs, even if “there aren’t a lot of mother-flâneurs in literature.” buff.ly/xZaYBCl
The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs
In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1840 short story “The Man of the Crowd,” an unnamed narrator sits in a café and watches a busy street. He notes small details about the people passing by, and he categorizes th…
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“Sleep was beginning to finally visit the insomniacs and drunkards of T— in central Manila when a commotion louder than the usual domestic squabbles erupted from the room above Mang Calixto’s bakery.” Read from Glenn Diaz’s new novel, Yñiga.
Yñiga
Sleep was beginning to finally visit the insomniacs and drunkards of T—in central Manila when a commotion louder than the usual domestic squabbles erupted from the room above Mang Calixto’s bakery.…
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August’s best new sci-fi and fantasy books bring sea monster villages, soul traders, and even more adventures.
Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
This month’s list comes to you from smoky orange skies and toxic lettuce, so what better time to distract ourselves with haunted seaside villages, mysterious salt pillars, and demon hunters? Robert…
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This week in literary history, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is (probably) performed for the first time.
This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. The earliest existing eyewitness account of a performance of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth comes to us from the astrologer…
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@cteicher.bsky.social recommends your August poetry TBR.
Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August
“You see, one can live without having survived,” writes Carolyn Forché. That sounds grim, and indeed it is, but it also points to one of the qualities that makes contemporary poetry so remark…
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Apple TV has acquired the rights to Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto, and Cool Machine.
Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy is coming to a screen near you.
Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy—comprised of the bestselling novels Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto, and Cool Machine—is headed for the small screen. As Variety reported this morning, Apple…
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What should your kids read this August? Try one of these 10 new children’s books.
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026
When the legendary children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom, who worked with luminaries like Maurice Sendak and E.B. White, was challenged about her qualifications to publish children’s books, she r…
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On reading Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age and examining the long literary history of age gap relationships.
Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships
Jennette McCurdy has spent the past few years telling the world her story. The actress became a household name as the comedic sidekick of iCarly, a Nickelodeon sitcom. She was fifteen when the firs…
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Why you might want to just read Children of Blood and Bone.
The Children of Blood and Bone trailer is here. (But you might want to buy the book instead.)
This morning, Paramount released the first trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, their buzzy adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack and teas…
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Vinita Prabhakar, an instructor at South Florida State College, was fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story.
An English professor in Florida was just fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story.
Vinita Prabhakar, an instructor at South Florida State College, was suspended from her post when admin got wind she was teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh short story in her intro to fiction course. (Thi…
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Catch up on the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama (in case you missed it).
Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama.
Some good old-fashioned literary drama is just the thing for late summer. Pairs well with mint juleps and malaise, I think. This week, those of this opinion were darkly pleased to learn that Rachel…
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“Dodging cars that didn’t even attempt to slow down, I made my way across the four-lane highway, along which Pig-licker and I had been running, coughing, and about to die in all kinds of ways.” Read from Will Cathcart’s new novel, This is How People Die.
This is How People Die
Scoot, Exhibit 06, Two-Handed Gogi Dodging cars that didn’t even attempt to slow down, I made my way across the four-lane highway, along which Pig-licker and I had been running, coughing, and about…
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“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam.” Read the first reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s most famous work (on the 82nd anniversary of his disappearance).
Read the First Reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.
Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the disappearance of French writer, journalist, and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. On July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupéry took off in an unarmed P-38 on his ninth re…
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From debuts to modern classics, these are the pieces of literary film and TV you need to stream in August.
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August
Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
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Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Rachel Aviv’s You Won’t Get Free of It, Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You, and David Thompson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light all feature among July’s best reviewed books.
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
Featuring Colson Whitehead, Rachel Aviv, Sigrid Nunez, David Thompson, and more
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Books by Jamaica Kincaid, Samanta Schwebelin, Eimear McBride and more are arriving in paperback this August.
Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August.
August, amazingly, approaches, the final month in a summer that has at once felt slow and like it has slipped by with the curious swiftness of a half-remembered dream. Still, the summer is not over…
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You can watch the Children of Blood and Bone trailer (but you can also read the book).
The Children of Blood and Bone trailer is here. (But you might want to buy the book instead.)
This morning, Paramount released the first trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, their buzzy adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack and teas…
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Lessons learned from failure (in both research and poetry).
Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Earlier this summer, our geriatric air conditioner stopped working, bringing an abrupt end to a few years of never-quite-c…
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At the age of twenty-one, when I was a senior in college majoring in music composition, my friends took to calling me “The Youngest Spy in the World.” Read from David K. Israel’s new novel, The Last Mozart.
The Last Mozart
At the age of twenty-one, when I was a senior in college majoring in music composition, my friends took to calling me “The Youngest Spy in the World.” I let them. More than that, I leaned into it, …
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Am I the asshole for wanting to switch writers’ groups? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this and more of your questions.
Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Switch Writers’ Groups?
Hello everyone! Welcome back to Am I the Literary Asshole?, an advice column that wants to be more than friends. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m currently trying to figure out how to talk my…
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