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- Michael R. Kratz outlines the unique challenges of translating The Brothers Karamazov into English. | Lit Hub Translation
- “If your subject matter is very dark, you might want to allow some light in.” Paula Hawkins on building a strong story structure. | Lit Hub Craft
- The world’s garbage can: on the human consequences of mass export of waste. | Lit Hub
- How to adapt Stephen King: a conversation with the duo behind The Boogeyman. | Lit Hub Film
- What should you read next? Here are the best reviewed books of the week, featuring Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Samuel G. Freedman, and more. | Lit Hub
- How a 1973 Bruno Schulz film adaptation goes (temporally) beyond its source material—and it’s not alone. | Lit Hub Film
- “Even more devious than a building that has no exits, like a prison, is a building with exits that lead nowhere, like a labyrinth.” On Borges and the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. | MIT Reader
- Here are the books Barack Obama is reading this summer. | The Hill
- “When the water arrives, it will knock out one of the densest metropolises in the world. In 1910, 150,000 people in Paris were affected, some 200,000 more in the suburbs.” Madeleine Schwartz asks, can anyone stop Paris from drowning? | The Dial
- The age of the “Feminist American Psycho” thriller has arrived. | The Hub
- On versions, perversions, counterculture and sex: Susan Finlay and Jack Skelley in conversation about their new books. | Port Magazine
- Read an excerpt from Caleb Azumah Nelson’s new novel, Small Worlds. | Brittle Paper