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Lit Hub Weekly: October 5 – 9, 2026
Samantha’s all grown up, and American Girl books are entering a new era. | Lit Hub Criticism How British media legitimized J.K. Rowling’s tr
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Lit Hub Daily: October 9, 2026
Morgan Entrekin attends the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize dinner at the Frankfurt Book Fair. | Lit Hub On Translation Demet
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March 5, 1933: The Election That Destroyed German Democracy
Recently, President Donald Trump banned three media organizations from the White House because of their negative coverage of him and his adm
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead, and Nathaniel P
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From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually be
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Roadshow
Annie bought a fifth of whiskey from the liquor store beside the Starbucks because money was imminent, and because Vera’s addendum had knock
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Taiwan Travelogue translator Lin King is calling out publishing’s “relay translation” practices.
Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Pri
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Can romance novels solve the straight man reading crisis?
Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise and fall of the
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The Third Circuit finds that AI companies can’t use material with an original “creative spark.”
Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Isl
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Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Canadian author Anne Carson, for “her bold and inventive oeuvre tha
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Lit Hub Daily: October 8, 2026
The decades-long friendship between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy was defined by a “mix of intimacy and worldliness.” | Lit Hub Biography
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On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long Friendship
Hannah Arendt’s homeland was populated with friends, most of them men—at least that is what her published correspondence would lead you to b
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our fivesome of fantastic reviews this week includes, Zain Khalid on Ayad Akhtar’s The Radiance, Franklin Schneider on MrBeast and James Pat
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It Begins On the Page: How Relationships Between Readers and Writers Are Made
We don’t usually understand literature as a dialogue. Typically, when publishing professionals think of readers, they think they need to ent
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, gene
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, gene
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“Perfect Breakfast”
You won’t wait for the light to slip through the window. You will look at Takashi sleeping beside you. It’s good he’s resting, you’ll think,
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T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead
Award-winning fiction writer T. Geronimo Johnson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new novel, The Occ
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Here are the winners of the 2026 Kirkus Prize.
Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “book
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Read the winning story of the 2026 Caine Prize for African Writing.
This week, the Caine Prize for African Writing, which awards £10,000 annually to the best short story by an African writer living on the con
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Lit Hub Daily: October 7, 2026
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On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work
In 1971, eight years after Sylvia Plath died, a dispute over the backstory of her death broke out between her husband Ted Hughes and the poe
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Writing in Times of War: Oleksandr Mykhed on Losing Ukrainian Books to Russian Bombs
Beginning on Thursday, August 27, all days blur into one long, endless air raid alarm. 13 air alarms a day, lasting 872 minutes. The next da
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An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence
If a body is undocumented, should we be surprised if the war against that body is undocumented too? The ugly truth of deportation is it is a
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