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What to Check Out in Literary Baltimore While You’re in Town For AWP

Terry Tempest Williams on the Plight of the Monarch Butterfly

Reading the Stars: On Iconic Actors in the Age of Generative AI

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person

Night Night Fawn

Rebecca Solnit, Vigdis Hjorth, Terry Tempest Williams, and more: 23 new books out today!

Here are the finalists for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.

The Double-Sided Sword of Deception: How Lying Can Help—and Hurt—Us

Lit Hub Daily: March 2, 2026

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

How to Talk About Book-Banning in the Classroom: A Story of Censorship, Action, Hope, and Love

Woodsy Necromancers and Space Moby-Dick: March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Printers’ Fists, Palaces, and Pavese Stone: New Poetry Coming in March

Read a Passage From Jonathan Galassi’s Book-Length Poem, The Vineyard

10 New Children’s Books To Get Wonderfully Lost In This March

Lake Effect

Bret Anthony Johnston on Listening to the Unconscious

Mimi Nichter on Finding the Courage to Tell Your Story

Lit Hub Weekly: February 23

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

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