Literary Hub

On the strange, literary video games of Inpatient Press.
Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2026
Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists
What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom
What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time
“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt
Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize
The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread
A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America
Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas
“50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know”
Rejected pitches for Practical Magic 2.
34 Books You Need to Read This Fall
Lit Hub Daily: September 8, 2026
Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!
Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It
Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him
How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs
What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe
This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”