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LITERARY HUB
Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2026
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The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought
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Why Women Need Fairy Tales to Stay Rooted in Their Own Lives
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Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday
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A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction
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What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common?
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On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate
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An Angel Watching Over Me: On Exile, Estrangement and Placelessness in Paris
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Whistler
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam review – an electric debut set on Manchester’s Curry Mile
LITERARY HUB
Lit Hub Weekly: May 25 – 29, 2026
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
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Lit Hub Daily: May 29, 2026
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Melissa Febos, Geoff Dyer, Beyoncé… Here are 25 books out in paperback this June.
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
THE PARIS REVIEW
The Twenty-Year Novel: Harriet Clark on The Hill
BOOK RIOT
Spotify’s Audiobooks Play is Working
LITERARY HUB
Lit Hub Daily: May 27, 2026
BOOK RIOT
5 Must-Listen Nonfiction Audiobooks
BOOK RIOT
Reading About History While Living Through History
BOOK RIOT
Time For Summer Mystery Books!
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8 Spooky Queer Folk Horror Books
BOOK RIOT
Announcing the First Zero to Well-Read Guided Read-Along
LITERARY HUB
How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death
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Why Michael Crichton’s Best Novel is the Worst Movie Based on One of His Books
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How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape
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“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto
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Who Are You When You Lose Your Job? And Other Questions You Can Answer by Making Art
LITERARY HUB
How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms
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What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel?
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“Expatriate’s Pantoum.” A Poem by Maria Nazos
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“Boring Tree”
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Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI.
LITERARY HUB
Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026
LITERARY HUB
We Should All Be Autodidacts: The Case For Reading the Great Books at Your Own Pace
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Marilyn Monroe Was a Voracious Reader, Despite Her Near-Debilitating Imposter Syndrome
LITERARY HUB
On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution
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The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders
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The Gays and Their Ghosts: Natalie Adler Recommends Queer Ghost Stories
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Namwali Serpell and Hanif Abdurraqib on Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
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Five Things I Got Wrong in My First Novel, According to My Dad
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This Week in Literary History: Ira Aldridge Debuts as Othello on the London Stage
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David Sedaris, Matt Haig, Missouri Williams, and more: 20 new books out today!
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams review – twisted love story from a cult writer
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
Crossing the Wine Dark Sea by Emily Wilson review – a masterclass in translation
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
THE GUARDIAN — BOOKS
Whistler by Ann Patchett review – a saccharine story of reunion
BOOK RIOT
A Busy Week for AI in The World of Books
BOOK RIOT