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How the Digital Attention Economy Has Taken Over Our Real-World Lives
When I visited the Louvre Museum in Paris, I was struck by how small the Mona Lisa looked in person—a common reaction—and by how most of the
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What We Lose in the Face of Extinction
Before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, he spent twenty years sketching out his ideas in a series of journals called the Trans
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Opening the Door: On the Secrets Old Buildings Can Keep
It began with a mistake. A glitch in the library’s database mismatched her name to an address from her past, an error that sent letter after
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Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more: 20 new books out today!
Today, it is officially fall: does it feel like it? The gradual transition from the beating heat to the falling leaves is all around us, and
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Heather Cox Richardson has been awarded the inaugural Gitlin-Auster Defender of Democracy Award.
Over the weekend, Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) awarded historian Heather Cox Richardson with its inaugural Gitlin-Auster Defender of
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Lit Hub Daily: September 21, 2026
Ed Simon explores the limits of language to understand why “pain makes poor poets out of all of us.” | Lit Hub Criticism Carlo Rovelli warns
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How Heated Rivalry Imagines a More Inclusive NHL
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Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework
Before arriving at the quanta to which this first lesson is devoted, allow me to begin with a simple observation. We humans inhabit the surf
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Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain
When the pain first arrived, it was during an uncharacteristically temperate Chicago summer more than a decade ago. First as a slight tingli
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On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone
The best way to observe London, with all its charm and beauty, oddity and idiosyncrasy, is from the top of a bus, and mine was the 31—the on
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The Newer World
My father Chas Bouguereau upped sticks some sixty years ago and left Louisiana and settled himself in Paris, a small town in Tennessee. It w
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Lit Hub Weekly: September 14 – 18, 2026
Don’t have time to read all those fall reading lists? That’s okay. We read them for you. Here’s the Ultimate Fall Reading List. | Lit Hub Re
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Here’s what’s making us happy this week.
Happy Friday, readers. Your friendly neighborhood Lit Hub staff are getting our kicks this week from simple things. Like good gags, surprise
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Sally Rooney just defeated a data center.
Here’s a rare piece of heartening tech news to buoy you toward the weekend: A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Roon
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Lit Hub Daily: September 18, 2026
When formal sex ed is insufficient, can romance novels pick up the slack? | Lit Hub Criticism Janet Manley interviews 2026 Astrid Lindgren M
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How Romance Novels Filled in the Gaps Left by Sex Ed
Chewed up gum, unraveled yarn, a flower stripped of its petals. Like so many in my generation, my introduction to sex was in pro-abstinence
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Isabel Allende on Finding the Freedom to Write
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. On January 8, 1981, I started writing a letter to my grandfather,
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Does Evil Exist (and How Do We Recognize It?)
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful … is the great and most universal cause of our moral sentiments.
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The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch
I never expected horses to become a theme in my life. When I was a young girl, I didn’t see them as animals so much as a child’s bedroom aes
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Here are the winners of the 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Today, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which celebrates “writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction. These ten titles were selected from
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Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2026
Who says nonfiction is in crisis? Maris Kreizman recommends 14 nonfiction titles to look forward to in the remainder of 2026. | Lit Hub Read
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Is Nonfiction in Crisis? These 14 Books Suggest Otherwise
The first official day of fall is this coming Tuesday, September 22, but if you’re reading this then by now you’ve probably seen a few “most
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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Joseph O’Neill on Jared Weisberg’s Profiles in Cowardice, Hua Hsu on Brian Dillon’s Ambiva
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