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July 17, 2025
Today, we’re looking at photography’s predecessors, the painters who got involved in the American Revolution, Ursula K. Le Guin’s 2000s-era YA trilogy, and more!
- Anika Burgess explores daguerreotypes, darkrooms, and the 19th century inventions that made photography possible. | Lit Hub Technology
- Ben Brooks recommends books featuring characters who redistribute their wealth by Dave Eggers, Neel Mukherjee, Ann Napolitano and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Ocean Vuong’s new novel “treats its characters like hogs to the slaughter.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “Like liberty, patriotism required a fire to sustain it. But fire needs fuel, and this is what the revolutionary creatives provided.” On the artists who joined the fight for American independence. | Lit Hub History
- “Every time I woke up, someone died. Usually my girlfriend, Lavender, or my dad, or my boss.” Read from Kerry Cullen’s new novel, House of Beth. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- Lydia Aikenhead on the idea that “a book contains, represents, or allows access to a physical space.” | The Met
- Peter Milne Greiner revisits Ursula K. Le Guin’s forgotten YA trilogy, The Annals of the Western Shore. | Reactor
- Vinson Cunningham close-reads the promises of A.I. commercials. | The New Yorker
- “Cellblocks full of people who killed or hurt or robbed are watching real-life murders, kidnappings and robberies for entertainment.” John J. Lennon on consuming true crime in prison. | The New York Times Magazine
- André Naffis-Sahely considers Yannis Ritsos’s poetry of Greekness. | Poetry
- The WIT Literary Festival has announced its 2025 lineup, including conversations with Hanif Abdurraqi, Torrey Peters, and more! | The Authors Guild
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June 3, 2025
Today, we have sports books, a history of anti-queer censorship in Britain, and a defense of adverbs!
- Deborah Baker on Richard Spencer, white nationalism, and how the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville altered American politics. | Lit Hub Politics
- “It is hard to describe lessons you were never taught, or conversations that were never quite had.” How anti-gay censorship laws in 1980s Britain impacted a generation of LGBTQ readers. | Lit Hub History
- New titles by Jenkins Reid, Susan Choi, and Edward Hirsch are among the 26 new books out today! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- S.L. Price recommends sports books that go beyond the mechanics of the game by Frederick Exley, Mark Harris, Buzz Bissinger and more. | Lit Hub Sports
- Molly Jong-Fast remembers a devastating week of loss, diagnoses, and unlearning lessons. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “If I start with thematic concerns, the writing almost never develops, it stays as inert as if a thousand-ton weight had been dumped on it.” Susan Choi discusses writing her novel, Flashlight. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “She could plaster over her past memories with this new memory in which the territory belonged to her alone.” Anelise Chen looks at the memories that chase us during the holiday season. | Lit Hub Travel
- “It was bad enough that the world was slouching towards Bethlehem without having to make six educational and entertaining programmes about it.” Read from Edward St. Aubyn’s new novel, Parallel Lines. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- “I wish, like I wish all writers in Africa, to hunt with African language—with African words.” A final interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. | The Nation
- In defense of adverbs (seriously). | Counter Craft
- Jordan Troeller chronicles the women who refused to choose between motherhood and making art. | The MIT Press Reader
- “Some writers are youthful prodigies, some late bloomers. Fuller, in a typically paradoxical fashion, was both at once.” James Marcus explores the life and work of Margaret Fuller. | The New Yorker
- Teachers discuss the devastating consequences of student AI use in their classrooms. | 404 Media
- How William Blake became a queer icon. | The Guardian
