Author: Sarah Mitchell
Sarah Mitchell
Sarah covers fiction with a reader's instincts and a critic's eye. She's interested in what novels ask of us, not just what they offer.
From AI authorship scandals to Stalinist censorship parallels, the week of July 6-10, 2026 produced some of the year’s sharpest literary arguments.
A new Kino Lorber documentary on Mary Oliver reveals the poet as a teenage runaway, lifelong smoker, and partner to photographer Molly Malone Cook.
Nella Larsen’s 1923 graduation, Dewey’s sermon epiphany, AI manuscript fraud, and new fiction from Jason Stone and Victoria Chang fill July 8’s reading list.
Lit Hub’s week brings 258 anticipated books, Palestinian poetry in crisis, Patrick Bateman’s skincare legacy, and an argument about what description actually does.
Writer Shohreh woke in her upstate New York apartment on the last day of Feb 2026 to learn Iran was at war — and her mother in Tehran was unreachable.
Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi, Dan Chiasson defends the writing impasse, and Lit Hub’s June 15-19, 2026 week refuses easy conclusions.
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman relaunch The Rumpus with expanded cultural coverage, a new Spanish-language vertical, and a prison writing column.
A week in books: Paul Celan biography, AI boyfriends in The Yale Review, Thomas Mann on America, and a Galileo forgery traced by JSTOR Daily.
Bookstores thrive by selling community, Jesse Green hunts Wilder’s last play, and a Clive Barker reread lands in Thatcher’s England. June 12 in books.
Tolstoy’s peasant disguise, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, and Carlos Labbé’s strange soccer novel headline June 10’s literary roundup.