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Lit Hub Weekly: July 20 – 24, 2026
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (371+ words) Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: July 20 - 24, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - “Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.” Rebecca Solnit on the Odyssey and the Western literary tradition of silencing women. | Lit Hub Criticism - From…...
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (486+ words) Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Michael Cunningham’s Unsayable, and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Yellow Pine all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. 14 Rave • 3 Positive –Leigh Haber (The…...
“You’ve Told Me This Joke Before”
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (1989+ words) “Don’t you want people showing up and feeling like they belong?” For the record, I’m only missing one back molar, but it caused all my other teeth to space out like a worthless picket fence. People won’t buy welcome mats,…...
Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (134+ words) Casting about for a snappy name, they noticed a customer in Houston calling itself “Hobby Lobby.” With little thought of trademark infringement, they took the name for their own store. Children should be exposed to the Bible at a young…...
Literary Hub » On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (191+ words) You are thinking of the modern hybrids that now monopolize England. Hypocrites, humbugs, Germans, Jews, Yankees, foreigners, Park Laners, cosmopolitan riffraff. Don’t call them English. They don’t belong to the dear old island, but to their confounded new empire; and…...
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (425+ words) For novelist Cris Judar, language and bodies are charged with conventions and social norms, and as such, language and bodies contain within them the potential for social upheaval and change. They are sites of repression, erasure, and enclosure, but also…...
Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (270+ words) Writing is difficult enough without adding the imperative to evolve into the writer you wish you were. We are, writers, readers, and everyone, whether we love our lives or not, compelled to watch time blow it all away. It’s the…...
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (680+ words) Literary Hub How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media Or, Judging a Reader by Their Book Cover In the before times, a cover served primarily as an interpretation of the text: a…...
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (60+ words) Literary Hub The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction For the week ending July 19, 2026 Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled,…...
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (46+ words) Literary Hub Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus....