Lit Hub Daily: August 25, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
- Ahmed Dader describes the horrors of surviving the Flour Massacre in Gaza: “I will need years for the scenes of that night to fade in my memory.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Richard Siken talks to Poets.org about his new collection, I Do Know Some Things, and the line break as “the most fundamental poetic device.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies influenced Sheila Heti to write (and live) sincerely. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “There are many ways to reflect on the United States before and after colonization, but few people do so exclusively in terms of fire.” How River Selby unexpectedly became a wildland firefighter. | Lit Hub Nature
- Nicholas Boggs talks to Danté Stewart about his new biography of James Baldwin: “We need his perspective through the lens of love right now, because hate, obviously, is everywhere.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Jamie Lee Searle reflects on the rich challenges of translating genre and gender blurring in Kim de l’Horizon’s Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues. | Lit Hub On Translation
- “It was one of those things we couldn’t say to one another. I had told Father, Father had told Mother, Mother must have told you.” Read from Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, translated by Jamie Lee Searle. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I think it’s important to remember how important Black women were to him.” Kaitlyn Greenidge talks to Nicholas Boggs and Jessica B. Harris about James Baldwin’s lovers and friends. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Jon Allsop proposes the Moomins as “an antidote to the toxicity of much modern internet discourse.” | The New Yorker
- H.M.A. Leow explores how Western travel writing doubled as propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War. | JSTOR Daily
- Gordon Marino examines the philosophy of boxing. | The Point
- “Designers built gadgets for the innovation class, while residents of Flint, Michigan, drank poisoned water.” How Americans soured on the idea of innovation. | The MIT Press Reader
- Luisa Suad Bocconcelli recommends nine recent books by women writers from the Maghreb and its diaspora. | Words Without Borders
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