18+ hour, 31+ min ago  (342+ words) Literary Hub One great poem to read today: Sarah Jean Grimm's "Zero Conditional This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will…...

20+ hour, 42+ min ago  (686+ words) She wanted to tell that hidden story, Benedict continued, "but I knew much of it lay beyond what these women were willing or even able to say aloud. Some couldn't speak because they didn't have the words, some were too…...

20+ hour, 38+ min ago  (220+ words) The history of the treatment of madness, far from representing the slow but steady march of science, was until recently a series of false starts, futile debates about method, and pointless, even cruel, interventions. Rather, as her dislodged womb drifted…...

20+ hour, 41+ min ago  (128+ words) Harriet Brown, Shadow Daughter Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art Susan Kiyo Ito, I Would Meet You Anywhere Eamon Dolan, The Power of Parting Daria Burke,…...

20+ hour, 51+ min ago  (434+ words) Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town (Scribner) "As pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer." "Emma Straub Mary Lisa Gavenas, Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay (Viking) Emma Copley Eisenberg, Fat Swim (Hogarth) "A lush, radical meditation on the…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (228+ words) Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: April 27, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - Katie Yee on why Mother Mary is a creative cautionary tale. | Lit Hub Film - Omer Aziz on the spectacle of fascism in both Nazi Germany and America today....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (772+ words) This morning, the eminent critic Dwight Garner published a lament for the institutional book critic'via his own institution, The New York Times. Lord knows this isn't the first swansong of its kind. We've covered the recent destruction of The Washington…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (533+ words) The A24 trailer defines the film in negatives first: "This is not a ghost story. This is not a love story." It goes on to say, "This is a prayer, a song, a dress, a communion, a betrayal, a sacrifice, a…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (119+ words) It was a major tragedy," Eugen wrote to Norma, Millay's sister. She also lost a seventeenth-century copy of Catullus, which she said, according to biographer Nancy Mitford, was the only thing that touched me emotionally, the only thing I mourned…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (819+ words) When I was growing up, my mom talked to my older sisters and me about sex in the simplest of terms: If we had sex, our father would have no choice but to throw us out of the house. It…...