Lit Hub Daily: April 3, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1895, Oscar Wilde sues the Marquess of Queensbury for defamation for criminal libel at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales. The trial doesn’t go well.
- “Lately, I’ve found myself pining for the old WASP elite.” In which Robert Leleux reads too many biographies of rich, white Americans. | Lit Hub Biography
- Simon Morrison explores the ex-pat life in Moscow after the collapse of Soviet communism. | Lit Hub History
- How PayPal and other platforms use financial censorship to suppress your freedom of speech. | Lit Hub Politics
- Why writing the Rainey Royal series saved Dylan Landis’s life: “The devotional act of writing Rainey became the lifeboat I stepped into every day.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Colm Tóibín’s The News From Dublin, Tana French’s The Keeper, and Serena Kutchinsky’s Kutchinsky’s Egg all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- The Lit Hub staff recommends poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, CD Wright, and Tracy K. Smith to kick off National Poetry Month. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Laura Vogt recommends slow burn romances by Jane Austen, Charles Frazier, Erin Morgenstern, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “In writing toward what I didn’t know, I rediscovered something I had largely forgotten.” Lisa Lee meditates on translating emotion. | Lit Hub Craft
- “you waltz through the bouquet of zombies / outside the Albertson’s, skip pristine / sneakers over frankenstein feet.” Read “Horror Movie Where We Survive,” a poem by Maya Salameh from the collection Mermaid Theory. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “The camera lens is covered in grease, we notice, there’s an amateurish quality to all this. It’s nighttime.” Read from Giada Scodellaro’s novel Ruins, Child. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Workers’ rights and climate justice are parts of the same grand struggle.” Kim Kelly on the urgent need for solidarity between the climate and labor movements. | Orion
- Stephanie Burt considers a new book from cult sci-fi author Cameron Reed—his first work after a 27-year absence. | The New Yorker
- Check out Christian Swinehart’s illustrated, data-driven look at Infinite Jest. | Infinite Digest
- Shira Chess examines the backrooms, liminality, and the rise of the institutional gothic. | The MIT Press Reader
- Livia Gershon dispels myths about American anti-fascist groups: “However, Copsey and Merrill find that, in practice, RCA and similar groups tend to view violence as a poor choice.” | JSTOR Daily
- “It was not my choice or even within my grasp to understand these things.” Alana Pockros on growing up Freudian. | Dirt
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