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Fish Bad, Sugar Good… And Other Medieval Ideas About Food
The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath
Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages
The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife
What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad
What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country
The Seekers of Deer Creek
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare
Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama.
Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2026
What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t
How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer
W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!
I Made You Up Inside My Head
Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story