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• “Cormac asks what we think of the home so far, already knowing our answers.” Photographer Beowulf Sheehan remembers capturing Cormac McCarthy through a lens. | Lit Hub Photography
• What should your kids read in September? Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books out this month. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• August’s best book covers really brought the color. | Lit Hub Design
• Louise Brangan traces the stories of the girls sent to toil in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries in her Cundill Prize-shortlisted The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence. | Lit Hub History
• Works by Marlon James, Chloe Benjamin, Emily Wilson, and even more are among the 21 new books out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• September’s most notable poetry releases include collections by Kathy Fagan, Leslie McIntosh, Emily Skaja, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Antiuniverses, deepfakes, clone children, and other phenomena await in this month’s best new sci-fi and fantasy titles. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “When she got home, Damaris was as happy to see the dog as the dog was to see her, and she petted her for a long time, only stopping when she looked down at her hands and saw they were covered in filth.” Read from Pilar Quintana’s novel The Bitch, translated by Lisa Dillman. | Lit Hub Fiction
• In a time of crisis for American universities, Hannah Gais examines the rise and fall of Hampshire College. | The Baffler
• “At the height of the surge, Minneapolis resembled a place hit by a hurricane: donated groceries piled in driveways and church parking lots, waiting to be distributed to people afraid to leave their houses; citizens wearing safety vests and whistles standing in groups outside local businesses and schools.” Emily Witt reports on Operation Metro Surge. | The New Yorker
• Matthew Wills explores the legacy of the “secular, socialist, and ‘uncompromisingly anti-Zionist’” Jewish Labor Bund. | JSTOR Daily
• Why collective action, not personal, is the best way to combat climate change. | The MIT Press Reader
• How Nancy Fraser’s work demonstrates why feminist, environmental, and anti-racist movements are all tied to anti-capitalist politics. | Jacobin

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