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Ginny Hogan on why we love to see the beauty and disappointment of toxic female friendships (on the page and screen). | Lit Hub Criticism

Today on the Lit Hub podcast we’re celebrating Indie Bookstore Day! | Lit Hub Radio

Gabrielle Bellot reads Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters and wonders if scientific innovation will be possible in Donald Trump’s America. | Lit Hub Science

Hannah Zeavin on class, race, gender and how caregivers disrupt the fiction of the nuclear family. | Lit Hub History

“In the end, we are all cursed, cursed by oil’s ease, seduced by its possibilities.” Don Gillmor on the impact of our addiction to oil. | Lit Hub Politics

“She was familiar with ‘my kind’—a young Black man striving to exist within the frame of societal and familial expectations.” Doug Jones on community as a queer Black writer. | Lit Hub Craft

Joan Didion’s Notes to John, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Exit Zero, and Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks

Casey Johnston explores the “uncomfortable reality” of writing about the body. | Lit Hub Craft

“I’ve moved to this city to wait for the end of the world. The conditions couldn’t be better.” Read from Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel Your Steps on the Stairs, translated by Curtis Bauer. | Lit Hub Fiction

Written in José Andrés’s unmistakable voice, Change the Recipe is a collection of his most affecting and powerful life lessons: hard-won wisdom from a man who has dedicated his life to changing the world through the power of food.

Was this Montana woman the first enfant terrible of American letters? Hunter Dukes on “the wild woman from Butte.” | Public Domain Review

“Even at the point of annihilation, Lem allows for the possibility of revelation.” Marat Grinberg considers Stanisław Lem as a Jewish writer. | Los Angeles Review of Books

José Olivarez and Jon Sands remember Aziza Barnes: “No one else sounds like them.” | Poetry

Heather O’Donnell on the legacy of Belle da Costa Greene, one of history’s most iconic librarians. | New York Review of Books

“At some point in our acquaintance, he greeted me by kissing me fully on the lips, and from then on, this was our ritual, a smooch.” Jesse Barron on Gary Indiana and his final novel. | Granta

Why Sophie Gilbert wants you to stop fetishizing Y2K pop culture. | The Cut

A stunning coming-of-age novel set in Nigeria, full of energy and crackling prose. Stephen Buoro’s The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa is available now in paperback.

Pier Vittorio’s Separate Rooms is soon to be a major film by Luca Guadagnino.

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