Ryan Murphy is adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 autofiction novel The Shards, set in 1981 Los Angeles. Expect excess, menace, and demon twinks.

Brown professor Roberto Serrano moved his final in-person after suspecting AI cheating. Scores fell 50%. A Princeton survey found 29.9% of students admitted to AI-assisted cheating.

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.

Vasily Grossman covered WWII for Soviet propaganda and produced journalism that ended up as Nuremberg evidence. His full work was suppressed until after his death.