Lit Hub Daily: September 24, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1940, Yves Navarre is born.

• During the season of big books, how do you choose one to read? With a flowchart, obviously. | Lit Hub
• How Imogen Crimp’s Give Me Everything You’ve Got demonstrates the loaded nature of an artist’s room. | Lit Hub Criticism
• “Masculinity, in this novel, is an inheritance of anguish and misadventure.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
• Sanna Wani explores the poetics of daughterhood: “To be a daughter is to know a particular kind of duty. It is a labor of love, a practice of attention, a relation of care. A vocation, even.” | Lit Hub Craft
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa shares here TBR pile, which includes Laura Kasischke, Blake Morrison, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
• On the secret three-man mission that won the Allies World War II: “What made Sparrow irresistible was that it would serve two purposes simultaneously. Like an iceberg, most of its mass lay hidden beneath the surface.” | Lit Hub History
• “The azaleas growing by the new hospital’s gates are in full bloom, a bright pink that makes my eyes sore.” Read from Nao-Cola Yamazaki’s novel Beautiful Distance, translated by Charlotte Goff. | Lit Hub Fiction

• Grace Glass remembers the “unexorcisable” Annie Dillard. | n+1

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• “Though many Canadians look at the US with mingled fascination and disgust, it is a historical fact that, for centuries, migrants from Canada have helped make America prosperous.” Paul Theroux on what Americans get wrong about Canada. | The Walrus

• Christopher Rice explores how his mother channeled grief while writing Interview With the Vampire. | The New York Times

• How Parisian librarians managed to lend books during World War II. | JSTOR Daily

• Jamieson Webster explores a psychoanalytic history of the sea: “Poor Freud. The great explorer of the unconscious could find no feeling for that oceanic depth.” | Broadcast

• “The single, blanket label “haiku” is something of a misnomer—it folds an entire family of short forms, senryū among them, into one word and hides a complex and rich relationship between Japanese and Hungarian poetic forms.” How the haiku came to Hungary. | Asymptote 

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