Browsing: Books & Fiction
August 5’s Lit Hub digest runs from Fiona Mozley’s new novel to Karen Rinaldi on Bourdain, Baldwin and Freud, and Emily Wilson on the Trojan horse.
Apple TV acquires Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy. Barry Jenkins exec produces. Graham Yost and Aric Avelino write scripts.
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.”
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.