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July 1, 2025

TODAY: In 1804, George Sand is born.

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Clear room on your bookshelves! Here are 249 books we’re looking forward to in the second half of 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Maris Kreizman on what it looked like to unionize against big five publishing’s unlivable wages and fighting the industry’s elitism. | Lit Hub Memoir

Leigh Claire La Berge looks back at Corporate America’s Y2K response and the digital apocalypse that wasn’t. | Lit Hub Technology

“I follow the object, asking it to speak to me.” Libby Buck on writing like an art historian. | Lit Hub Craft

“I’ve been researching this one in some sense my whole life, or at least since I was old enough to watch old Hitchcock films with my mom.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Meg Waite Clayton. | Lit Hub In Conversation

“nothing left in the day’s haggard pockets / but dizzying hunger and rows of rubble.” Poetry by Nasser Rabah. | Lit Hub Poetry

“I wasn’t there to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t not on the table, either.” Benedict Nguyễn on teaching English in Paris while revising her novel. | Lit Hub Craft

All the good books are here! (It’s Tuesday.) | The Hub

“Like an Olympian, she’d be a representative of her country abroad; she’d bring back the metaphorical gold, much to the envy and admiration of everyone she’d left behind.” From Wanting by Claire Jia, out now from Tin House. | Lit Hub Fiction

AN IMMERSIVE, TENDERLY WRITTEN NOVEL

Nishant Batsha’s new book is an expansive and poignant story of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I.

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New fiction by Zadie Smith, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Jhumpa Lahiri, inspired by fiction from The New Yorker’s hundred-year archive. | The New Yorker

“Disruptive and restorative, interpolation is the paradoxical form of life, literature, and time itself.” Hannah Weaver considers Proust and interpolation. | Public Books

Rachel Kushner on her time at Berkeley, and the power of looking at everything. | The New York Times

“I can’t help but think that he was the best president we never had.” John Nichols remembers Bill Moyers. | The Nation

John Last explores the colorful history of tarot cards. | Smithsonian Magazine

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BURN IT DOWN

The debut essay collection by cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political left.

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IF DESTINY IS REAL, IS THERE SUCH A THING
AS CHANGING IT?