1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (282+ words) Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: August 10 - 14, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - When a wealthy university donor can silence one of the world’s leading genocide scholars, it exposes the problem with for-profit higher education. | Lit Hub Politics - On The Catcher…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (236+ words) The Rumpus—that most enduring of indie online lit mags—is launching a new editorial initiative. El Arboroto is a new vertical catering to Spanish-language readers and writers. Per the press release, the new publication will be dedicated to publishing…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (848+ words) It was an oasis of fields of corn and beans, of cassava trees that grew neatly trained in small orchards. But also of orange and lemon groves, of rosy-leaved peach trees, of carrots and cabbages. It was an oasis of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (499+ words) Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age, Virginia Eubanks’s A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving, and Téa Obreht’s Sunrise all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. 1. A…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (189+ words) In early 2014, a pair of political scientists published a striking study on the health, or lack thereof, of American democracy. Authored by Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern Univesity’s Benjamin Page, the study combed through decades of data to try…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (287+ words) As a writer and thinker, my life is divided into a B.N. and A.N.: a before-Nelson and after-Nelson. Before cracking open Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, I’d been all phobic about the first-person whenever I sat down to write. For decades, I’d avoided…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (501+ words) Contrary to popular belief, reading—our favorite thing in the world—needn’t be antisocial. Earlier this summer, The New York Times dubbed this the year of literary group travel. This fall, I’m predicting rises in the institutionally hosted book club…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1011+ words) Literary Hub 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week “The truth about Life of M is that the book isn’t really about Natalie Portman at all.” Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Lauren LeBlanc on Téa Obreht’s…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (196+ words) The New Yorker – March 2, 2026 On the bottom of this stack is an old issue of The New Yorker. This one’s from March; it has Rachel Aviv’s wrenching piece on Gisèle Pelicot, which I read, so I think it’s safe to…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1089+ words) Literary Hub Russian Literature Does Not Belong to the Russian State Katie Kelaidis on the Winners of This Year’s Dar Prize The designation of “foreign agent” is used by the Russian government to label individuals and organizations that receive foreign…...