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What is the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time?
Who says TV rots your brain? These days, it delivers its fair share of great storytelling, whether original or adapted. But this is Literary Hub, after all, and so as the weather gets cooler, we’ll be hunkering down with some
How Online Fandom Made Me a Writer
Growing up, I always preferred fictional worlds to the real one. As an only child who struggled with social anxiety and was very much not athletically inclined, I spent most of my childhood buried in a book and daydreaming about
This Week in Literary History: America’s First Lending Library Gets its First Ten Members
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin had an idea. At that time, in colonial America, books were rare, and prohibitively expensive for most people—not to mention the fact that they took forever to arrive
Writing Iran’s January Massacre in a Non-Mother Tongue
To our readers: These notes were written, in conversation with one another, in the immediate aftermath of the January 2026 massacre in Iran and the concurrent internet blackout. For months, we did not even know what to do with them.
Olivia Laing on Chronicling the World of 1970s Italian Cinema
Step into the world of The Silver Book with Olivia Laing, award-winning author of The Lonely City, Everybody, and Funny Weather, as they discuss their spellbinding new novel of art, queer love, and illusion. Laing was joined in conversation by
What It Means To Be a Basque Writer
“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of
17 Books About Native American Culture to Read This November
University presses have played an important, if complex, role in the history of Native studies and more than 80 members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) currently publish in this field. University presses have a unique ability to tell
Watching The Librarians With Librarians During Banned Books Week
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the middle of Banned Books Week, three intrepid high school seniors—Laird Bowser, Alec Thomsen, and Devin Protti—spearheaded a sold-out benefit screening of the 2025 documentary The Librarians in Santa Cruz, California. In collaboration with Bookshop
“Hello Daughter”
Lori hadn’t heard from Freddie in a week or so. She wasn’t even sure if she had her daughter’s current address. They don’t talk that much, but she says hi every week, and Freddie sends I’m still not dead. back.
Lit Hub Weekly: November 2 – 6, 2026
How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholicism impacted his writing: “Tolkien, it is fair to say, saw God everywhere…above all, in his art.” | Lit Hub Biography Ed Simon explores the symbol of Guy Fawkes and V for Vendetta‘s anti-authoritarian afterlives. | Lit
The Queens Public Library system is being held for ransom.
In a bizarre turn of events, on Wednesday November 4th, New York City’s Queens Public Library (QPL) system, which operates 66 branches, experienced an attack on its online networks by a hacker. The entire system is offline, and is being
Take the n+1 bookmatch quiz and know thyself.
Our friends at n+1 are back with their annual pre-yuletide gift. Bookmatch, the highly bespoke literary quiz, pairs readers with a custom-made syllabus based on their answers to a dozen or so quirky questions. Be warned: this is not Buzzfeed’s multiple
Lit Hub Daily: November 6, 2026
Katherine Kelaidis on Sergey Davydov and why stories of ordinary life are essential in times of political upheaval: “Hatred and division, the business of political conflict, are not the organizing principles of his inner world. Love is.” | Lit Hub
Science Friction: An Argument for More Sex in Sci-Fi
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. For centuries, sailors enduring months-long voyages would gaze out at sea mammals sunning themselves and think the thought as old as thought itself: “Would.” Even famously reliable Christopher
Who Gets to Write About Ordinary Life?
We keep asking Sergey Davydov for a news report, but what he really wants to tell us is a love story. It would be to our advantage if we do it his way. His sophomore foray outside of theatre, Мидвест
How Neuroscience Can Give Paralyzed People The Chance to Speak Again
A young adult man with closely cropped dark brown hair sits in a wheelchair in a dimly lit room, facing a computer screen on which a simple phrase is typed out: “How are you today?” Underneath the question on the
”Arabic Music,” a Poem by Mahmoud Darwish
“If only men were stones.” If only I were a stone… Whenever the eyes wander, Do these clouds, one by one, Put me to flight? When a sparrow scratches at the horizon Do I search for an idol? At each
Priyanka Kumar on Incorporating Art Into Her Nature Writing
On a snowy winter afternoon, a coyote was slipping out of the microwild around my home as I tried, without success, to get a good photograph. (I created the concept of the microwild while writing the book The Light Between
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Judi Dench’s Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?, Ian Rankin’s The Heights, Louise Kennedy’s Stations, and Simon Garfield’s The Pen: A Human History all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home
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This is Ada noticing on her tongue the translucence of the word escriure and the word novel·la, to write and novel, respectively. The coffee tinting them, melting them, like ice cubes. Ada who is ex-plaining that now that she’s returned
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