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A Mask the Color of the Sky

Lit Hub Daily: March 12, 2026

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

On the Power of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, One of the Most Banned Books of Its Era

On Hail Mary, an Important History of American Women Playing Tackle Football

On the Struggle to Be a Good Man in Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men

On Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby as “Portable Fortress of Dreams”

“By a Trans Woman, About Trans Women, For Trans Readers.” On Imogen Binnie’s Nevada

On the Pure Pleasure of Plot in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

On Kai Cheng Thom’s Genre-Bending “Confabulous Memoir” Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

On Decentering and Unlearning in Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit

Daisy Hernández on the Myth of Citizenship

Sara Yasin’s new digital magazine, The Key, will center Palestine.

Here are the finalists for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

What to read next if Sentimental Value is your Oscars pick.

Lit Hub Daily: March 11, 2026

Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama

The Book of Michael Silverblatt

Five Books About Breaking Up… With Your Friend

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