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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July

From Lucky to Little House on the Prairie
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How a Childhood Bookmobile Sparked My Love of Reading

Brenda C. Wilson Remembers the Start of Her Reading Journey
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Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine”

On the Pleasure of Encountering Something New
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On the First—and, So Far, Only—Book Ban Case Ever Heard by the Supreme Court

Anthony Aycock Looks Back at Island Trees v. Pico,

Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels

By Emma Southon

What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful

By Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer

The Reluctant Researcher: How I Ended Up Writing a Historical Novel

By Ethan Joella

Merci, Marjane: What the Author Meant to Me as an Iranian in Exile

By Naz Riahi

Why We Still Love Mr. Darcy, 200 Years Later

By Susan Moore

One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet

By Brad Rassler

Natalie Adler Talks to Sarah Schulman About AIDS History and Dykes Around Town

By Sarah Schulman

This Week in Literary History: America Turns 250

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What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It)

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos

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June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem

By Peter Mishler

Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction

By Vanessa Miller

The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now

By Diana Arterian

40 Great New Books You May Have Missed

By Maris Kreizman

Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page

By Spiro Skentzos

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Crime Reads

June 29, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Widow's Bay is
the Best Show on TV

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best True Crime Books of the Month: June 2026

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

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Namwali Serpell and Cathy Park Hong on Toni Morrison’s Jazz

By Passages: On Morrison

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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My Mother’s Voice:
Messages From Tehran

By Shohreh Laici

On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History)

By Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting

By Sarah Flocken

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

By Danny Bate

The Clothes Make the Man: How Dark Suits Defined the Early American Republic

By Chloe Chapin

For a Historian, the Facts of Any Given Life Disappear the Moment They Occur

By Thomas S. Mullaney