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Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.

For Robert Moor, Readers Are Quickly Losing the Line Between the Idea of a Book and the Book Itself
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Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to Their Inner Child

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of It Will Come Back to You
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Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth

“Rohmer’s characters... could all be on time-out and exist on an entirely different planet... But be under no illusion; it is still our world.”
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Rachel Aviv, Daniel Mason, David Thompson, and More

This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published

By Literary Hub

A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents to Holden Caulfield

By Janet Phillips

Am I the Asshole For Being Jealous of My Friend’s Literary Success?

By Kristen Arnett

As Book Criticism Disappears, the Booksellers Are Stepping In

By Drew Broussard

The First Reviews of
The Catcher in the Rye

By Book Marks

How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone”

By Eyal Weizman

To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska

By Clare Cavanagh

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mark Haber is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

Best Reviewed
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

Nate Bukaty on World Cup 2026 and the Heart of American Soccer

By Fiction Non Fiction

Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon

By Dan Werb

Finding Heroes of My Own in Three Unsung Women of America’s Great Outdoors

By Heather Hansman

Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet

By Jason Dove Mark

One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon

By Sally Ashton

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 16, 2026

Seicho Matsumoto's A Quiet Place Is a Dark Fairy-Tale of Post-War Japan

By Pico Iyer

20 Speculative Thrillers to Get You Through the Rest of 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

26 New and Upcoming Historical Novels To Check Out in the Second Half of 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

By Jack Parlett

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

By David Baerwald

Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America

By Matthew Wolfe

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

By Megan Marshall

Why Can’t the Public Sector Pick Up Our Trash?

By Simon Paré-Poupart

Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood vs. Joseph Shires

By Zach St. George

Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim

By Jo Scott-Coe

The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event

By Sophia Smith Galer