Book Marks Reviews: Cline’s Dementia Novel and McBride’s Middle-Aged Men
This week's best book criticism covers Emma Cline's Alzheimer's novel Switzy, Danny McBride's tales of male insecurity, and more standout reviews.
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Category: Culture
Lit Hub Daily rounds up today’s literary links, essays, and news from around the web
Lit Hub Daily for September 10, 2026: reading lists, relationship advice, constitutional history, comics journalism, and more from across the literary internet.
Kacey Musgraves Hung Disco-Ball Testicles Onstage, Joining a Surprisingly Rich Art-Historical Tradition
Kacey Musgraves' disco-ball testicles spark viral moment, tracing a lineage of testicle art as subversive critique from Phillip Guston to Pippa Garner.
Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Calamity Club’ Tops Indie Fiction Bestsellers as Beth Brower Claims Six Slots
Kathryn Stockett's The Calamity Club tops this week's Independent Press Top 40 Fiction list, with Beth Brower's six-volume series and classics charting high.
MegaHouse’s Pochita doll barks, growls, and revs like a chainsaw — preorders open now
Chainsaw Man's Pochita becomes a life-size interactive doll with barking, growling, and chainsaw sounds, plus a pull-tail cord — $189, out in Japan in 2027.
Eight Book-Adaptation Blockbusters Are Coming This Fall — Here’s What to Watch
From Stephen King's Carrie to Dune: Part Three, here are the 8 biggest book-to-screen adaptations hitting screens this fall, ranked by release date.
Björn Persson’s Wildlife Photography Captures Animals as ‘Sentient, Emotional, and Intelligent Beings’
Swedish photographer Björn Persson captures the sentient lives of wildlife in his new book 'The Earth We Share,' with a preface by Jane Goodall and an introduction by Ellen DeGeneres.
How San Francisco’s Printers and Poets Built a Literary Scene Too Proud to Answer to “Frisco
A warm, meandering portrait of San Francisco's literary and artistic scene, celebrating the city's proud opposition to New York's cultural dominance.
Robert Moor Wants You to Stay ‘Branchy’: Rethinking Environmentalism, Tree by Tree
Robert Moor's 'In Trees' urges 'tree thinking'—branching, not ladder-like—to alter environmentalism, aging, and writing, with Wordsworth and Tolstoy as contrasts.
Krysten Ritter Says Channeling Bad Experiences Into Her Work Leaves Her Feeling Lighter
Krysten Ritter on turning pain into art: 'Anything bad that's happened to me, I try to put it in my work.' Her quote resurfaces ahead of 'Dexter: Resurrection'.
NYT Connections Hints for Sept. 10, 2026: Every Word in Today’s Puzzle, Explained
NYT Connections hints for Sept. 10, 2026: meanings for each word, from Actinium to Thunder Road, plus why definitions may be a clue in themselves.
Heidelberg Opens Its Digital Vaults to Hundreds of Scanned Issues of Jugend, the Magazine That Gave Germany Its Name
Browse hundreds of scanned issues of Jugend, the German Art Nouveau magazine (1896–1940), from avant-garde Jugendstil to Nazi-era control, now online.