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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

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

Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams

By Oana Aristide

Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides's Iphigenia Among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

Chana Joffe-Walt on The Best Tape You Can Get

By The Critic and Her Publics

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

By Steven W. Thrasher

More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

By Angela Flournoy

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On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp

By Elizabeth H. Winthrop

Sad Love Stories Are the Best Stories: A Reading List in Praise of Messy Love

By Alicia Upano

The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature

By Nicole Blackwood

“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer

By Alice Mattison

Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can

By Sara Lippmann

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 13, 2026

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

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

What Has Gabino Iglesias Been Reading in 2026?

By Gabino Iglesias

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

By David Baerwald

How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection

By Maris Kreizman

The Satire and Style of Vanity Fair is as Relevant as Ever

By Roshan Sethi

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

By Simon Paré-Poupart

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in July

By Literary Hub

Here’s the Frederick Douglass Speech to Revisit This July 4th

By Robert S. Levine

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

By Sophia Smith Galer

Jim Jones and Me: On Growing Up Guyanese-American in the Shadow of Jonestown

By Afsheen Farhadi

Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love

By Cat Fitzpatrick