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The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media

Kathryn Jezer-Morton on Performing Pregnancy the “Right” Way Online
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It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To)

Ed Simon on the History of Book Cover Trends
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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

The Nearly Departed: Inside the Art of Writing a Great Obituary

By Sam Roberts

Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West

By Jane Ciabattari

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

By Teddy Wayne

To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away

By Jess Row

Esther Kinsky on Is Beauty Good, the Novel by Rosalind Belben

By Esther Kinsky

Rachel Syme Loves a Good Yarn

By The Critic and Her Publics

“We Live Inside the Sun.” Who Studies the Universe Changes How We See the Universe

By Steven W. Thrasher

Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley

By Claire Stapleton

How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye

By Jasper Craven

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Finding My Place in NYC’s Black Punk Scene

By James Spooner

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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An Ode to Pro Wrestling, the Ultimate Underdog Story

By P. Paramita

How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly

By Maris Kreizman

Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home

By Jodie Hollander

Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

By Seth Kaplan

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

August 10, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best International Fiction of August 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Allure of Society Thrillers

By Debbie Baldwin

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Book Marks

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

By Laurel Taylor

Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually

By Leila Renee

For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet

By James Crawford

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

By Literary Hub

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

By Meaghan Beatley

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

By Meaghan Beatley

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

By Tracy Borman

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

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