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Haruki Murakami has a new novel coming out—and for the first time, it features a female main character.

Maria Reva’s Endling has won the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

One great poem to read today: Marie Howe’s “You Think This Happened Only Once and Long Ago”

Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2026

Without the “Women’s Fiction” of the Early Aughts I Wouldn’t Have Survived My Divorce

Brad Neely on Embracing Errors When Making Art

A Short History of America’s Drowned Towns

How Diet Culture Ruins Lives

Writing About Life in America Before Roe v. Wade, in Fiction and in Memoir

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

How Library of America Helped Shape the Modern American Literary Canon

A Splintering

Here are the finalists for the NYPL’s 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award.

Why you should be reading Nancy Lemann’s nonfiction, too.

One great poem to read today: William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 28”

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2026

Bernd Heinrich on His Life in the Maine Woods

My Friend Won’t Stop Sending Me Writing and It’s Driving Me Crazy: Am I the Literary Asshole?

25 Gifts for Mothers (Who Are Also Writers)

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