The Latest

How the Feeble Human Biped Came to Dominate the Natural World

By Roland Ennos

Imagination is Not Enough: Why Fiction Needs Fieldwork

By Amara Lakhous

Letter From Minnesota: This is Our
Fight Response

By Susan Raffo

The Hub

News, Notes, Talk

The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette

By Eileen G'Sell

Letter From Minnesota: “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns.”

By Andrea Jenkins

What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime

By Emily Galvin Almanza

Why I Wrote a Middle Grade Book About Religion

By Huda Al-Marashi

On Dancing As Rebellion and The Problem of Embodiment

By Sarah Domet

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement

By Kimberley Kinder

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • They
  • This Is Not About Us
  • Eradication: A Fable
  • The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
  • End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

Your
Daily Fiction

Michael R. Jackson on Sam Greenlee's THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

The Cosmic Library Hears Imaginary Music

By The Cosmic Library

Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic

By Jane Ciabattari

Bombing in the Breadline: A Day in the Life of the Average Gazan

By Ali Abu-Zayed

Letter From Minnesota: Going From the Nightmare to the Poem

By Kara Olson

Sheila Heti on Torborg Nedreaas’s Nothing Grows by Moonlight

By Sheila Heti

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

February 18, 2026

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: February 2026

By CrimeReads

Cannibal, the Listicle

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

New Series to Watch this Holiday Weekend

By Olivia Rutigliano
Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Cosmic Library Hears Imaginary Music

By The Cosmic Library

Eight Books About the Ups and Downs of Friendship

By Lillian Li

Sarah Aziza on Memoir as a Work of Art

By Memoir Nation

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement

By Kimberley Kinder

This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City

By Literary Hub

Letter From Minnesota: “I Have My Passport With Me.”

By Michael Torres

The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time

By Keza MacDonald

Why Does Contemporary Fascism Fetishize the Classics?

By Ed Simon

In Praise of One of America’s All-Time Great Book Sections (RIP)

By Gerald Howard

  • Lit Hub Daily

    February 18, 2026

  • Follow Us

  • Support Lit Hub.

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member