Lit Hub Weekly: July 13 – 17, 2026

• On the emergence (and fall) of the Japanese compartment telephone caller successful the aboriginal 2000s (and the its attendant motivation panic). | Lit Hub Technology
• Josh Cook, bookseller and laminitis of the Porter Square Review of Books, explores wherefore booksellers are stepping successful arsenic publication disapproval disappears. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “Put simply, radical don’t bargain books. They bargain holograms, and they anticipation the publication matches up.” What happens when the thought of a publication supersedes the publication itself successful the eyes of readers. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Steven W. Thrasher connected wherefore we indispensable each combat for world freedom successful the look of organization cowardice and authorities overreach. | Lit Hub Politics
• “There person been much than a fewer times lately erstwhile I wanted to propulsion my laptop crossed the room, driblet everything, and spell unrecorded successful the woods. This was 1 of them.” Monica Potts confronts the grade of AI theft of her work. | The New Republic
• Even if Sarah Wynn-Williams was expected to enactment silent, Meta inactive looks similar a bully “pursuing a idiosyncratic agenda.” | Wired
• Nitsuh Abebe explores the rising (“almost camp”) usage of “degenerate.” | The New York Times Magazine
• “As we look upon burned soma successful Gaza, we are besides seeing the rubble of this older mentation of Western empire. How champion to splice the frame, to support them some successful mind, to support looking?” Isabella Hammad connected Gaza, ruin, and mourning. | Equator
• David Cole considers the ruling against Florida’s Stop WOKE Act. | New York Review of Books
• Katie Kitamura tells Ann Tashi Slater about the value of staring retired the window. | Tricycles.
• Ali Rıza Taşkale considers Silicon Valley’s misuses of subject fiction. | Aeon
• Hassan Abo Qamar connected watching the World Cup successful Gaza: “For 90 minutes, the World Cup gives america thing the genocide has tried to instrumentality away: a consciousness of community, a consciousness of normality, and a infinitesimal of axenic celebration.” | The Nation
• “Tokens…acquire functional worth relationally, done learned patterns of quality and contextual association, alternatively than done immoderate intrinsic enslaved betwixt connection and thing.” What semiotics has to bash with the improvement of LLMs. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “They conscionable heard maine explaining that the likelihood are really rather bully successful Russian roulette.” Jacob Russell writes a dispatch from Beirut. | The Paris Review
• Cristina Dorador writes a emotion missive to the Atacama Desert amid clime change, translated by Robin Myers. | The Dial
• Hua Hsu revisits Shiva Naipaul’s newly-reissued 1980 relationship of Jonestown, Journey to Nowhere, which “interrogates not conscionable bully and evil but reverberations done time: the bruising unit of personality, a authorities scaffolded connected the maddest of promises, our inclination to mistake charisma for wisdom.” | The New Yorker
• Pasquale Toscano examines the Odyssey done the lens of disablement (and American politics). | Public Books
• Geraldine Brooks on the genesis and interaction of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. | Smithsonian Magazine
• “The onus is not connected the readers. The onus is connected publishers and prize committees and each the different forces that find which books stay disposable implicit time.” How Doubleday’s caller reissue series, Outsider Editions, is expanding the canon. | Language Arts

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The queer writer’s experience of sobriety • Intimacy arsenic creation in Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth • Why writers request to bargain time • How Grace Paley imbued the roles of creator and activist with emotion • The “nostalgic glamour” of speechmaking different people’s letters • Eric Olson profiles Sigrid Nunez connected the merchandise of her postulation • Angela Flournoy explores Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments • Trying to seizure the lives of children successful a Syrian detention camp • Authors with caller books reply our questions astir literate life • Books that center messy love • When 1 of your poems is virtually going to the Moon • Why raccoons emotion Toronto • The magical lawsuit for pursuing your literate dreams • Stories of America’s unsung outdoorswomen • The dangers of forgetting the biology history of our satellite • Why Phoebe’s the existent icon successful The Catcher successful the Rye • How Israel turned Gaza into an “annihilation zone” • Jealousy rears its disfigured greenish head successful this week’s Am I the Literary Asshole? • What the poesy of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska teaches america • This week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction • Read the earliest reviews of The Catcher successful the Rye • Mark Haber’s TBR • 5 publication reviews you request to work this week • How galore Homers were there? • Growing up alongside the Odyssey • Questioning what you deliberation you cognize about realism • Who were those girls Renoir kept painting? • The best reviewed books of the week • Gender, power, and writing a publication astir Bobby Kennedy • How PEN America’s avoiding its responsibilities to all writers • Why the collaborative effort of editing is the eventual reward • Try speechmaking these feminist reimaginings of myth