September 3, 2025
Today, AI-narrated audiobooks are making us feel weird (derogatory) and American politics are haunting us, but at least we get to read some Nikki Giovanni!
- Adam Verner explores the uncanny soullessness of AI-narrated audiobooks. | Lit Hub Technology
- Are Americans being conditioned to accept delayed elections? “Democracies don’t usually die all at once.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Maria Reva, Jasmin Schreiber, and Ed Yong discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Daniel A. Olivas reflects on how little has changed after 41 years of writing about the abuses of the American immigration system. | Lit Hub Politics
- Adedayo Agarau documents years of ritual killings in Nigeria and the trauma of returning to the street he grew up on. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Read “Toni Morrison,” a prose poem by Nikki Giovanni from the collection The New Book. | Lit Hub Poetry
- From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I was convinced that I had destroyed the people I loved most in the world.” Miriam Toews considers the complexities of grief, guilt, and memory. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I had few pleasures to call my own.” Read from Nathan Harris’s new novel, Amity. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- Ben Collins on why The Onion returned to print and if Infowars is still on the table. | Wired
- Devoney Looser discusses the wild and wonderful world of Janeites. | Public Books
- “Oliver is bracingly, uncommonly honest about her fear that she might be a loser.” Maggie Millner considers Mary Oliver and shame. | The Yale Review
- How hardcore punk took root in Reagan’s Orange County. | JSTOR Daily
- From his 1982 book Abusing Science, Philip Kitcher critiques creationism in classrooms and explains the dangers of calls for rhetorical balance. | The MIT Press Reader
- Tammy Lai-Ming Ho examines two works of fiction united by the “intimate and perilous” act of teaching. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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