On Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest (and books about trips gone awry).
https://lithub.com/hitting-the-road-here-are-three-recommendations-about-trips-that-get-out-of-hand/

“‘I’m afraid you’ll find what I have to say rather distressing. Sergei Nikolaevich will be arriving in a few days’ time.’” Read from Yuri Felsen’s novel Happiness, translated by Bryan Karetnyk.
https://lithub.com/happiness/

How, from ancient times to the present, grains and grasses continue to feed humankind.
https://lithub.com/the-origin-of-our-species-how-grains-and-grasses-fed-and-still-feed-humankind/

A new three part series about Charles Dickens will explore “the life and inspirations of [the] nineteenth-century novelist, journalist and social campaigner.”
https://lithub.com/a-new-series-on-charles-dickens-takes-your-favorite-victorian-novelist-to-the-streets/

“As a reader, you may want Alyoshka to get a grip and do the right thing. But what is the right thing? It depends on who you ask.” Irina Sadovina considers lessons learned from translating Anna Nerkagi’s White Moss.
https://lithub.com/on-the-complexities-of-navigating-indigenous-life-in-a-relentlessly-modern-world/

As the Hong Kong Free Press reports, four booksellers in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of selling “seditious titles” centering jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
https://lithub.com/four-hong-kong-booksellers-have-been-arrested-for-selling-seditious-titles/

Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th-century French botanist who forever changed biology on a bet.
https://lithub.com/on-a-bet-jean-baptiste-lamarck-invented-the-way-we-still-identify-plants/

The six book shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction include memoir, contemporary politics, biography, writing on health and science, and more.
https://lithub.com/heres-the-shortlist-for-the-2026-womens-prize-for-non-fiction/

Why the town where The Last Picture Show was shot couldn’t wait for production to end.
https://lithub.com/the-town-where-the-last-picture-show-was-filmed-absolutely-hated-it/

On the evolving role of Black comedy in Hollywood and the life and career of Stepin Fetchit.
https://lithub.com/trailblazer-or-panderer-inside-the-life-and-career-of-black-comedian-stepin-fetchit/