June 30, 2025 ‹
TODAY: In 1984, Lillian Hellman dies.
Rebecca Morgan Frank highlights seven new poetry collections publishing in July, including work from James Cagney, Marissa Davis, and Cassandra Whitaker. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Natalie Zutter recommends the best speculative summer reads coming out in July, featuring defracted universes, memory divers, and dark academia. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Translator Suzane Jill Levine remembers the great Manuel Puig, cosmopolitan chronicler of the everyday. | Lit Hub Translation
“Before Adjoua adopted Judy on her twenty-ninth birthday, people warned her that having a huge dog in a tiny apartment was a bad, even inhumane, idea. They were wrong.” From Karim Dimechkie’s new novel, The Uproar. | Lit Hub Fiction
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that parents can opt children out of classes that assign books with LGBTQ characters. | NPR
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In more positive book ban news, Maryland’s school board approved changes in state legislation to prevent parents from removing books from school libraries without due process. | The Baltimore Banner
“Andrew Steeves operates at the highest existential stakes: book making as proof for what matters while we’re alive.” On the last run of Canada’s “most stubborn publisher,” Gaspereau Press. | The Walrus
Against sprayed edges. | Paste
Lauren Groff makes the case for Mansfield Park as Austen’s “boldest, riskiest, most subversive and most artistically mature work of all.” | The New York Times
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