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What’s with all the nostalgia for Obama-era New York?

Lit Hub Daily: May 11, 2026

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

Sciaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of The Girls of Slender Means

When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

Argentina Through the Eyes of Polish Writer Witold Gombrowicz

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is Published.

Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

The Surprising Similarities Between the Kardashians and WWE

“How My Light Is Spent”

Lit Hub Weekly: May 4

Marianne Boruch has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Lit Hub Daily: May 8, 2026

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

“The Data Shows We’re Never Truly Alone.” What Our Online Searches Say About Loss

How My Mother Made Magic Happen

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Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick

“Yah, boo, sucks.” On the time Angela Carter absolutely flamed Joan Didion in an interview.

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