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Dissenting opinion: Why Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ is good, actually.
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Have we been reading Toni Morrison all wrong?
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'Speakeasies to Symphonies' and 'Cosmic Music' chronicle 2 jazz greats
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 13, 2026
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Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos
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The Official Trailer for HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING Is Here
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Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh review – a climate-crisis novel let down by its prose
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Lit Hub Daily: April 13, 2026
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Genre-Bending BIPOC Romance
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So You Want to Be Well-Read
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8 Sensational Comics by Celebrities
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Unstoppable: The Life and Career of Danielle Steel
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When Housewives Get Revenge, and More Mystery News
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3 Ramona Readalikes for Imaginative Kids
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Of Nature, Art and Grace: On Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It
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On Writing the Hard Truths of Rural American Life
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What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years?
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This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London
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Aja Gabel on Love and Grief
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In Pursuit of Genius In Troubling Times: On Philip Owens’s Picture of Nobody
Philip Owens is buried in a war cemetery near Athens, Greece. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as having died on the tenth of...
Five Novels That Showcase Queer Domesticity
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One great poem to read today: Tim Dlugos’s “Shelley Winters”
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The Palm House
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Rich Benjamin on Writing From Before You Were Born
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Kate Schatz on Having an Agenda
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Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power
This is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries written by Antony Sher in the six months before his death from liver cancer...
The Lions’ Run
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The Queen’s Granddaughter
The Queen’s Granddaughter, Diane Zahler’s account of nonstop adventure set in the 12th century, is middle grade historical fiction at its finest....
Inbetweens
Inbetweens is a phenomenal graphic novel about trying to find one’s passion in life and dealing with a variety of roadblocks. Prolific...
Tom Gauld on the manosphere – cartoon
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Caro Claire Burke discusses her debut novel 'Yesteryear'
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Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
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Too hot to handle? Why it’s time for straight male authors to rediscover sex
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 12, 2026
Book Deals Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 12, 2026 An Indigenous psychological thriller, a book from the world of WICKED, a fantastical race...
Mega Bestselling Thriller Writer Freida McFadden’s Identity Revealed
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 11, 2026
Book Deals Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 11, 2026 A charming, cozy romantasy, a steamy romance with angels and demons, futuristic stories...
The Best Way to Keep Track of New Books
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Lit Hub Weekly: April 6 – 10, 2026
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From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25
The news about reading in general, and childhood reading in particular, is not good. Last year a National Literacy Trust survey of more than 100,000...
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