Browsing: Books & Fiction
Paramount’s Children of Blood and Bone trailer is out, but author Tomi Adeyemi calls the adaptation “the worst thing she ever had to live through.”
Rachel Cusk’s new novel *Life of M* features a famous actress who looks a lot like Natalie Portman. Portman’s camp is not pleased.
From Solnit on Homer to a 30-year sentence for zines, the week’s literary news collided canon, silence, and AI in uncomfortable ways.
Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine leads with 14 raves. Claire Vaye Watkins, Keith Ridgway, and two nonfiction titles round out a strong week.
A bookseller’s brother gets 30 years for moving zines, AI companies mine old books for clean data, and the Harlem Renaissance writers got there first.
July 20 in books: O. Henry’s prison release, Margaret Avison’s unpublishable biography, Foer’s soccer book revisited, and a strange story from Michigan Quarterly Review.
Booksellers fill the criticism void, Doubleday launches Outsider Editions, and AI theft hits writers where it hurts. The week in books, July 13–17, 2026.
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.