Author: Daniel Cross
Daniel Cross
Daniel covers fiction and literary culture, with a particular interest in how stories hold up against the reality they describe.
Samantha Paige Rosen’s anthology “Living, Together” covers communal living across group houses, nomadic life, and intergenerational neighborhoods — honest about hardship, specific in its details.
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.”
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.
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.
A UK crafter gifted children paper hedgehogs folded from Nicholson Baker’s erotic novel The Fermata. Police were called. He said he was mortified.
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.