Lit Hub Daily: August 10, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1912, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf marry.

• On The Catcher in the Rye at 75, Hemingway, and the influence of war on the history of American masculinity. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Oil companies know they’re destroying the planet, but they still choose profit. | Lit Hub Climate Change
• Being online means being expected to perform, even during pregnancy. | Lit Hub Technology
• These books by Fred Turner, Shoshana Zuboff, Sarah Wynn-Williams, and more expose the myths of Silicon Valley. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “I’m named Eleanor because I was born a week after Eleanor Roosevelt came to Kansas City to campaign for her husband.” Read from Laura Moriarty’s new novel, Sunlight Finds You. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “We have traded a system that was biased and commercially distorted for one that is biased, commercially distorted, and prone to simply making things up.” Five writers reflect on the long fall of the internet. | Boston Review
• “It deserves to live on not because of what it rejects but because of what it makes possible: thinking on the page, a hallmark of the humanities that is indispensable to their value.” Walt Hunter on the humble, essential blue book. | The Atlantic
• Homeland Security Investigations lied to try to prosecute a journalist who covered anti-ICE protests in Minnesota. | The New Republic
• After six decades, The Battle of Algiers still inspires ideas and actions. | Jacobin
• Justin Chang looks at two new movies about writerly destinies. | The New Yorker

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