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“Late Winter Walk,” a Poem by Julia Alvarez

The International Short Story is Booming

The Poetics of Repetition: In Praise of the Art of Replication

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aimee Nezhukumatathil is Reading Now, And Next

Hexes of the Deadwood Forest

Ben Lerner, Patrick Radden Keefe, Emma Straub, and more: 25 new books out today!

One great poem to read today: Dean Young’s “Unstable Particles”

Lit Hub Daily: April 6, 2026

What If There Could Be… Good Art Friends?

Breakfast For Optimists: How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg

The Responsibility of the Critic: On Art, Honesty, and Introspection

“This Simple Machine,” a Poem By Daniel Moysaenko

Searching For the Lost: On Arrivals, Departures and What We Leave Behind

This Week in Literary History: Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is Published

Correspondence Versus Connection: Raymond de Borja Reflects on Language, Poetry, and Friendship

Camille T. Dungy on Being a Renaissance Man

Lit Hub Weekly: March 30

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

Is JD Vance stealing his book titles from bell hooks?

The Corrections is finally coming to Netflix.

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