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Thinking Inside the Box: How Constraints Can Make Us More Creative

What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

Violaine Huisman on Confronting a Father and Grandfather’s Legacy of Infidelity

One Leg on Earth

Is Peter Thiel a “bad fan” of LOTR?

Lit Hub Daily: May 5, 2026

On Making Time to Read War and Peace and Other Great Literary Works

Charles Dickens… and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Elizabeth Strout on Creating a Quietly Strong Protagonist

How Being a Mediocre Scientist Helped Me Become a Better Novelist

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

Grave Years and the Undead Woman: On the Chilling Erasure of Mothers’ Needs

Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, Kathryn Stockett, and more: 24 new books out today!

Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2026

Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action

What Tradwife “Influencers” of Centuries Past Share With Their Social Media Contemporaries

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