Maris Kreizman on AI, the future, and the ongoing devaluation of the arts: “For years we’ve been grappling with the collapse of the creative middle class due to corporate greed.” |
How can parents raise readers in the age of digital distraction? “Our job as parents isn’t to eliminate technology—it’s to create intentional spaces where deep attention can flourish.”
July 7, 2025
Today, we’re excited about reading in multiple languages, theater at the library, cool rocks, and more!
- Will Potter examines the psychological and social impact of the over saturation of cruelty in the digital age. | Lit Hub Technology
- “We see ourselves in the predators of the wild; to eat a coyote would feel like an act of cannibalism.” On killing a coyote. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Language-switching says something about Billy Parham’s ancestry, upbringing and his ability to survive.” Rachel Ashcroft meditates on the joys of reading books in multiple languages. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Brian Schaefer on Lunch Dances, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri’s immersive dance-theater performance that challenges everything you’ve been taught about how to behave at the library. | Lit Hub Music
- “I am finally yielding to my inner eighth grader, hoping to find the flame tenders of a forgotten American highway before time runs out.” James Dodson explores the history and legacy of the Great Wagon Road. | Lit Hub History
- “School started and it was awful. ‘Predictably awful,’ as Anne Mom would say.” Read from Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, Vera, or Faith. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- “To most of us, that Carlyle was so beloved by the leader of the Nazi party is, at the least, a questionable mark against the Victorian thinker.” On Hitler, Curtis Yarvin, and why the far right loves reading Thomas Carlyle. | Public Books
- Casey A. Williams chronicles the revolution and conflict sparked by Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto. | New York Review of Books
- Professor Marcia Bjornerud explains time literacy (and wants you to pay more attention to rocks). | Atmos
- Neha Madhira reports on the Palestinian journalists targeted for their coverage of genocide. | The Intercept
- “I’ve narrated really raunchy sex scenes – AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like…Birth scenes as well – I’d love to know how they plan on getting around that.” Audiobook narrators grapple with the implications of AI. | The Guardian
- Wells Tower has found your luggage. | The Cut
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April 30, 2025
Today, we’re thinking about literature in the context of American politics, wondering why people slut shame cats(????), and looking back at the best book-related things from April!
- Tobias Carroll explains what Elon Musk doesn’t understand about Iain M. Banks. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Zoe Roth examines Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams in the context of here and now. | Lit Hub History
- Don’t know what to watch next? Try some of the literary film and TV coming to streaming in May. | Lit Hub Film
- Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Lower Than the Angels, David Szalay’s Flesh, and Elaine Pagels’ Miracles and Wonder all feature among April’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- “I was used to hearing human women slut-shamed; it was new to me that men would call cats sluts.” Courtney Gustafson explores casual misogyny in animal rescue. | Lit Hub Memoir
- From contrasts to complimentary colors, theses are April’s best book covers. | Lit Hub Design
- Get ready for paperbacks by Questlove, Tessa Hulls, and more in May! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How London’s Great Plague of 1666 paved the way for modern scientific research: “Instead of cures, London’s medical men ultimately offered witness, up to the point of death.” | Lit Hub Health
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated May audiobooks. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “A series of details fell into place: the towel on the mirror, the strange words she’d uttered in her sleep, the content of her rant.” Read from Sarah Yahm’s new novel, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- How The Great Gatsby became an American classroom staple. | The New Yorker
- Francis Northwood looks at the problematic business of the energy fueling AI. | The Baffler
- Jackie Snow on what she learned about reading while working at a books to prisons nonprofit: “The thousands of letters I’ve read since that first day in 2017 made me confront my own literary prejudices.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Sadie Stein remembers Jane Gardam, who has died at 96. | The New York Times
- Feroz Rather talks to novelist and poet Aria Aber about language, dislocation, and excess. | Public Books
- Natasha Lyonne is…making an AI film? | The Verge