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Leila Chatti on the Many Ways to Be (and Not to Be) a Mother

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You About My Book

On the Urgent Need to Dismantle Food Apartheid in the United States

Mrs. Benedict Arnold

The New York Public Library has announced its new class of Cullman fellows.

One great poem to read today: Sarah Jean Grimm’s “Zero Conditional”

Lit Hub Daily: April 28, 2026

Was Emerson the True Father of American Literature?

Meet the Literary Agent Who Invented the Book Auction

Ten Memoirs That Explore the Nuances of Family Estrangement

The Medicalization of Madness: How Schizophrenia Was Treated Throughout the Ages

The Queen of Sales: How Mary Kay Ash Created a Beauty Empire

Helen Benedict on Chronicling the Legacy of the Iraq War In Fiction

All Flesh

Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more: 20 new books out today!

Five great book critics writing today (and where to find them).

One great poem to read today: Corey Van Landingham’s “Adult Swim”

Lit Hub Daily: April 27, 2026

Honoré de Balzac’s Greatest Fear? Being Photographed

A Ghost of One’s Own: On Collaboration and Creative Ownership in Mother Mary

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