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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Ramona Ausubel’s Favorite Exercise for Getting Unstuck

Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet… Or All of the Above?

On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)

What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself

God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Khong is Reading Now, And Next

What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Four

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.

Lit Hub Daily: April 16, 2026

How Parks and Recreation Helped Create the Vision for a Better America

Polly Barton on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude

A Linguistic and Philosophical Tapestry: Suchitra Ramachandran on Jeyamohan’s The Abyss

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Chris Hadfield on Final Orbit, Artemis II, and the Future of Space

Here are the winners of the 2026 Whiting Award for Emerging Writers.

Here are the winners of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

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