Browsing: Books & Fiction
Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel The Shards becomes an FX series produced by Ryan Murphy, starring Kaia Gerber and set in 1980s Los Angeles.
From a 1616 translation to an AI voice reading it aloud, every major Odyssey adaptation ranked — and Nolan’s new film with Matt Damon arrives into that history.
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.
A UK crafter gifted children paper hedgehogs folded from Nicholson Baker’s erotic novel The Fermata. Police were called. He said he was mortified.
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.
Eight A24 films matched to eight books worth reading — from Marie Ndiaye to Claire Messud, psychological unease to ambiguous grief.
Eight sapphic sci-fi novels — from Nicola Griffith’s 1992 Lambda winner to Larissa Lai’s 2145 clone societies — map a genre building its own future.
From Shohreh Laici on war to Colson Whitehead’s formal restlessness, a week in books that refused easy resolution.