Which big fall book should you pluck from the masses? Fret not—there’s a flowchart for that. | Lit Hub
“Once in awhile, something explodes, but August is August.” Myroslav Laiuk on life in Kyiv, August 2022. | Lit Hub Ukraine
A warm welcome to these 11 new books hitting shelves today. | The Hub
“I’ve been trying to figure out why I think my niceness is presumed—does it have to do with the fact that I’m Asian? A woman?” Mia Mercado on the anxieties of performing “niceness.” | Lit Hub Memoir
The democratization of everything: On Robinhood, bitcoin, and the promise of fairness. | Lit Hub Politics
Jonathan Russell Clark considers where George Miller failed (and excelled) in adapting A.S. Byatt in Three Thousand Years of Longing. | Lit Hub Film & TV
Against Draculas and Humbert Humberts: Juniper Fitzgerald on unlearning the gothic narratives that shaped her prepubescent sexuality. | Lit Hub Memoir
CrimeReads editor-in-chief Dwyer Murphy recommends the best crime shows coming out in September. | CrimeReads
A dive into the escapist worlds of Maurice Sendak. | The New York Times
Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch recommends her favorite books. | Far Out Magazine
What makes a romance novel a hit with Gen Z? Deanna Schwartz and Meghan Collins Sullivan report. | NPR
A look at the procedures that Utah schools are using to ban books. | Axios
What makes Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice so divisive? Jim Ruland investigates. | Alta
“Is it art if it makes everyone mad? Not necessarily, but in this case yes.” Keith Gessen on Turgenev’s Fathers and Children. | The New Yorker
Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood talk all things evil. | Interview
