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September 17, 2026

TODAY: In 1902, Bea Miles, an Australian woman known for her bohemian life and ability to quote any passage from Shakespeare (for a price), is born.

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Who says nonfiction is in crisis? Maris Kreizman recommends 14 nonfiction titles to look forward to in the remainder of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Nadia Bowers and Stephanie Wittels Wachs discuss writing about the opioid crisis and losing loved ones to addiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation

How Nanako Hanada offers book recommendations to strangers from the internet. | Lit Hub Memoir

Winnie M. Li highlight books about the Great American Road Trip starring people of color by Valeria Luiselli, William Least Heat-Moon, Jesmyn Ward and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“The result is a strange, bewitching experiment in autobiography.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

“Wong provides us with a road map of how to forge ahead even under the most difficult of circumstances.” Remembering Anna May Wong, cinema icon and Hollywood's first Asian-American star. | Lit Hub Biography

Elizabeth Metzger recommends nine collections of breakup poetry by Anne Carson, Sandra Lim, Maggie Millner, and more. | Lit Hub Craft

“There is a simple recipe for making rice. My father taught it to me when I was a child.” Read from Madeleine Thien’s new novel, Simple Recipes. | Lit Hub Fiction

THE EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION TO THE
NINTH HOUSE TRILOGY

Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win.

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A HISTORY OF THE TECH WORKER MOVEMENT

A gripping account of the inspiring tech workers' movement and the rise of the hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today, called “an essential book for understanding class struggle under digital capitalism” by Ben Tarnoff and “illuminating and deeply self-reflective” by Karen Hao.

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A group of academics has constructed an archive to remember the Palestinian scholars murdered in the Gaza genocide. | Public Books

“We navigate the world by means of a tiny ocean enclosed within our heads”: A psychoanalytic history of the sea. | Pioneer Works

Francesca Giangiulio considers Anthony Bourdain’s recently reissued crime novels. | Salon

Kali Wallace explores how a trashy pulp novel became classic poetic horror movie Eyes Without a Face. | Reactor

Jordan Crane talks to Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez about 45 years of drawing and writing. | The Comics Journal

Lessons learned from the letters of Harold Bloom. | Los Angeles Review of Books