#ClipOfTheDay: Watch the trailer for The Librarians, a documentary which focuses on the escalating book bans in public libraries and the harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing the work of librarians and how they are standing up for the freedom to read. at.pw.org/TheLibrarians

#ClipOfTheDay: “It felt like the kind of book that you can only write when someone is either about to die or has died.” In this Copper Canyon Press event, Paisley Rekdal reads from her book Heritance and talks about grief, forgiveness, and lineage. Watch: at.pw.org/Heritance

#ClipOfTheDay: For this Pioneer Works event, Ben Lerner talks about how the instability of dialogue informed his latest novel, Transcription (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in a conversation with New Yorker staff writer Alexandra Schwartz. Watch: at.pw.org/Transcription

#ICYMI: Watch this virtual reading and conversation of the five debut authors featured in “The New Nonfiction 2026” in the September/October issue: Nita Noveno, Phill Branch, Megan O’Grady, Joseph Trinidad, and Elena Dudum. #ClipOfTheDay: at.pw.org/NewNonfictio...

#ClipOfTheDay: Watch the trailer for the new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. at.pw.org/Sensibility

#ClipOfTheDay: In this WIRED interview, Emily St. John Mandel discusses how the current political climate in America informed the speculative catastrophe in her new novel, Exit Party. Watch: at.pw.org/ExitParty

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Green Apple Books event, Black Ocean celebrates its twentieth anniversary with readings from authors Carrie Olivia Adams, Kristin George Bagdanov, Nathan Hoks, and Zachary Schomburg. Watch: at.pw.org/BlackOcean20

#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of the Fashion Neurosis podcast hosted by Bella Freud, Leïla Slimani talks about the dangers of gaining recognition as a writer and discovering the timelessness of literature through Dostoevsky and Tolstoy as a child. Watch: at.pw.org/Slimani

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Book Passage event, Téa Obreht reads from her fourth novel, Sunrise (Random House), and talks about her fascination with the American West after growing up in the former Yugoslavia in a conversation with Parini Shroff. Watch: at.pw.org/Sunrise

#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Literary Hub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast cohosted by Christian Barter, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, and Whitney Terrell, author Claudia Rankine discusses how current political crises inspired her new book, Triage (Graywolf Press). Watch: at.pw.org/Triage

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Politics and Prose event, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn reads from their second essay collection, I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships, and discusses how researching about flowers helped structure their personal experiences. Watch: at.pw.org/Sawchyn

#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Ed Park reads from his hybrid memoir, Three Tenses: A Transmission From the Nineties, and reminisces about his time working as a literary editor at the Village Voice. Watch: at.pw.org/ParkThreeTen...

#ClipOfTheDay: Produced by PBS American Masters, this documentary celebrates the life and career of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver, and interviews Stephen Colbert, Nick Flynn, Donika Kelly, and other artists who have been influenced by her work. Watch: at.pw.org/MaryOliverDoc

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Fine Arts Work Center event in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Hieu Minh Nguyen reads a selection of poems from his third collection, Staying Still (Tin House), alongside author Lydi Conklin and photographer Ron Amato. Watch: at.pw.org/FAWC

#ClipOfTheDay: “There is no price tag on a poem.” In this Poetry in America video, Martín Espada’s poem “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper” is read and analyzed by economist Justin Wolfers, and the poet talks about the true value of poetry. Watch: at.pw.org/Espada