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The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs

Emily McBride Considers the Different Ways Mothers and Children Inhabit Urban Space
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Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Carly Mattox on Half His Age, A Girl’s Story, and Her Own Experience
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

From One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Shards
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How Christian Europe Learned to Fear the Forest—and the Beasts Within

Cal Flyn Explores Medieval Europeans’ Evolving Relationship With the Wilderness

On the Poetics of Canine Narration

By Erik Gleibermann

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

By Literary Hub

How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Generational Storytelling: Writing For My Grandmother and My Daughter

By Margrét Ann Thors

Beneath the Wallpaper: On Art, Photography and Hidden Everyday Violence

By Sarah Minor

Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion

By Louise Nealon

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

By Meaghan Beatley

Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

By Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

Tracy Borman Recommends Books To Make You Fall In Love With the Tudors

By Tracy Borman

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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter

This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

By Literary Hub

Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

By Craig Morgan Teicher

The 13 Best Book Covers of July

By Emily Temple

Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

By Chelsea Rathburn

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

August 4, 2026

The Allure of Society Thrillers

By Debbie Baldwin

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of August 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

By Chelsea Rathburn

One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland

By Jan Carson

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

By Roger Celestin

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

By Kojo Koram

Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

By Katherine Harvey

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

By Joseph Ogilvy