Lit Hub Daily: September 24, 2026

Grace Glass remembers the “unexorcisable” Annie Dillard. | n+1 “Though many Canadians look at the US with mingled fascination and disgust, it is a historical fact that, for centuries, migrants from Canada have helped make America prosperous.” Paul Theroux on what Americans get wrong about Canada. | The Walrus Christopher Rice explores how his mother channeled grief while writing Interview With the Vampire. | The New York Times How Parisian librarians managed to lend books during World War II. | JSTOR Daily Jamieson Webster explores a psychoanalytic history of the sea: “Poor Freud. The great explorer of the unconscious could find no feeling for that oceanic depth.” | Broadcast “The single, blanket label “haiku” is something of a misnomer—it folds an entire family of short forms, senryū among them, into one word and hides a complex and rich relationship between Japanese and Hungarian poetic forms.” How the haiku came to Hungary. | Asymptote