THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1966, Delmore Schwartz dies. Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways women writers arrange the balance between creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft How Jane Austen subverted the kind of romance she mastered by writing Emma. | Lit Hub Biography How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary…
Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History Why readers still fall in love with Mr. Darcy, even after 200 years. | Lit Hub Criticism…
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1912, E. R. Braithwaite is born. Maggie McKinley considers Joan Didion’s “future-oriented” nostalgia. | Lit Hub Criticism “I would never blame them. But being around Americans while this country is bombing mine is the last thing I can do.” Iranian writer Shohreh Laici on war and her mother….
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1817, Branwell Brontë is born. How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticism “I don’t remember the exact content of the poem, but it was the first time I…
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1592, London theaters close for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. Why the elder Millennial experience of American life is a cycle of getting your hopes up and being let down. | Lit Hub Memoir Justin Ellis explores the labor history and racial…
TODAY: In 1914, Wyndham Lewis publishes the first issue of Blast, the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit…
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1752, Frances Burney is born. Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge is underway with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time! | Lit Hub Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography Dave Eggers…
TODAY: In 1929, Anne frank is born, and in 1942 she gets a diary for her birthday. If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores Korean poets and their translators pair poetry collections with K-pop albums. | Lit Hub On Translation Did you know…
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1881, Count Leo Tolstoy sets off on a pilgrimage to a monastery disguised as a peasant. Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography Sofia Montrone on becoming reacquainted with her grandfather through fiction: “Before I was a writer with characters of…
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1875, Thomas Mann is born. Sharon Blackie explores the grounding power of fairy tales. | Lit Hub Criticism What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Maybe it’s fair to call this mysticism, but…
