Literature

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Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Lit Hub Daily: June 17, 2026
How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map
A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee
“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead
What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?
The Powerful Freedom of BDSM
On Redeeming Freud
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All
On the Ethical Problems of Clinging to My Sighted Life
The Rumpus is back!
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel, out next year, will be a 1930s spy caper.
Carrie R. Moore has won the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award.
Ghost-Eye
Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today!
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026
Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young
On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery