From “happily every after” to “pot calling the kettle black,” the origins of eight worn-out idioms. | Lit Hub
26 new paperbacks to toss in your tote. | The Hub
“There’s a quiet radicalism in recognizing that unbelonging can be something that grants liberty.” Lucy Scholes on Peter Ho Davies’ The Welsh Girl. | Lit Hub
The Witcher ends for Henry Cavill fans, Good Omens goes off-book, and more of the Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July. | Lit Hub Film & TV
Turn up the volume for AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of June. | Lit Hub
Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos, and Richard Ford’s Be Mine all feature among June’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
“Look at them, look at them all looking back at you: the queens, the kings, the obituaries and unbroken hearts.” Hugh Ryan on Paul Fasana, the librarian who helped preserve thousands of pieces of queer history. | Harper’s Bazaar
Ted Chiang talks AI. | Vanity Fair
Take a look inside one of America’s last pencil factories. | Smithsonian Magazine
Justin Taylor considers Charles Portis’s dark comedy. | The Point
“Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective.” Joyce Carol Oates on Ursula Parrott’s 1929 novel Ex-Wife. | NYRB
