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- Why we should revisit Frederick Douglass’s speech this July 4th is not clear. | Lit Hub History
- These 10 best books for children coming out in July include new works from Jacques Jource, Celeste Pewter, Sumiah Beck, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Here are this week’s Independent Press top 40 bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “If you find yourself hanging on every word of a whispered story, chances are the reader will too.” On John Updike and small-town literary gossip. | Lit Hub Craft
- Victoria Chang, Anna Jarni, Philip B. Williams and other poets have incredible new works this month. | lit hub poetry
- “The desire for human connection, and the desire to celebrate that connection, transcends everything else.” 5 book reviews you should read this week. | book marks
- The best new science-fiction and fantasy books of July transport you to a world of knights and demon sacrifices. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- This week on the podcast Excerpt: On MorrisonNamwali Serpell and Saeed Jones discuss Toni Morrison’s “Master of Shade”. | Lit Hub in conversation
- “Many people these days don’t appreciate that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing from what we have now.” Read from Guillermo Stich’s new novel, coast of everything. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Samir Abu Hawash and Huda J. Fakhreddin discusses Palestinian poetry in the time of genocide. | asymptote
- Kyle dives into Mandel’s archives jewish gazetteOne Irish Jewish newspaper of the 1930s. | JSTOR Daily
- Five years after Anthony Broadwater was acquitted of sexually assaulting Alice Sebold, Joaquin Sapien returns to the story. | ProPublica
- “One might have thought it would be a good idea to include some scholars who are aware of or at least somewhat sympathetic to some of the contemporary trends being criticized.” Richard Moran on Wrong way to criticize the humanities. | boston magazine
- “Condemning actions without directly confronting them, misrepresenting facts, and taking elements out of context became tactics of culture warriors.” How the culture wars lead to art censorship. | baffler
- Exploring the Genius of Board Books Through the work of Sandra Boynton. | the new York Times
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