Lit Hub Daily: April 15, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1843, Henry James is born.
- It’s time for the third round in our Best Literary Adaptations bracket, and things are getting serious. Vote for your favorite movies to push them closer to the top! | Lit Hub
- Harry Sidebottom traces Roman history through Amazon, Achillia, and other women gladiators. | Lit Hub History
- Rosa Campbell on how men responded to The Hite Report (and why we’re wrong about men and feminism). | Lit Hub Politics
- Candice Wuehle recommends books on it girls and celebrity by Edith Wharton, Joyce Carol Oates, Bret Easton Ellis and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Adriana E. Ramírez considers her grandmother’s life though the lens of Colombia’s recent history. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Mai Nguyen remembers learning to write again after facing incredible tragedy: “There’s something about fictionalizing your grief that gives way to joy.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Libby Ward considers motherhood, fatherhood and the inequality of parental labor. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “That act of reconstruction, my attempt to tell the story of how two remarkable people fell in love, is my novel.” Stephanie Sy-Quia on writing about her grandparents. | Lit Hub Craft
- To continue our series in honor of National Poetry Month, today we recommend reading Sam Riviere’s “Myself Included.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Russ brought back a Coke Zero for Cherry and a beer for himself. And he kept his word—he stuck to her table.” Read from Rainbow Rowell’s new novel, Cherry Baby. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Hermione Lee considers The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf, and “the astonishing range of connections and commitments that pour through this book and through her life.” | NYRB
- Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett imagine the possibilities of a communal curiosity. | The MIT Press Reader
- R. Cohen and Alicia Kennedy discuss food writing, food security, and food justice. | Public Books
- “The question driving the protagonist throughout the novel is not: How do I write the best poetry possible? It is, more modestly: How do I get from here to there?” On Shakespeare and Philip Owens’ Picture of Nobody. | The Baffler
- Sarah Menkedick considers the complexities of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Mickey Hahn. | The New Republic
- “These characters don’t exactly ‘die’ when memed, but their innocence does, because that’s the whole point of the meme.” What the internet did to Snoopy. | Dirt
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