Lit Hub Daily: August 27, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1856, Ukrainian writer and poet Ivan Franko is born.
- “When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” On Northern Irish solidarity with Palestine. | Lit Hub Politics
- Hannah Berman considers The Compound, Small Game, and what literary depictions of reality TV teach us about the ethics of the edit. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Sahar Mustafah on how the ADL has “rigorously weaponized Jewish victimhood in order to foment fear” in American classrooms. | Lit Hub Politics
- Glory Edim explores Jessie Redmon’s literary legacy and her forgotten novel, Plum Bun. | Lit Hub Biography
- Peter Mishler talks to poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney about maximalism, unexpected audiences, and her collection Joy Is My Middle Name. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Examining settler colonialism, the illusion of progress, and what actually resulted from the Oslo Accords. | Lit Hub History
- On the legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, murdered by the NYPD for resisting eviction: “Gender and femininity have never shielded Black women and girls from unfettered anti-Blackness or police violence.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Amanda Uhle explains using “a consummate image of my childhood self” as the cover of a memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The big glass pyramid amused Mona.” Read from Thomas Schlesser’s novel Mona’s Eyes, translated by Hildegarde Serle. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “There is a kind of Lockwood lens that brings into focus the improbable and hilariously bizarre features lurking in the midst of ordinary life, which a different writer might prefer to smooth over for realism’s sake.” Alexandra Schwartz profiles Patricia Lockwood. | The New Yorker
- Jonathan Karp is stepping down as the C.E.O. of Simon & Schuster. | The New York Times
- On Betar, Canary Mission, and the practice of doxxing students and faculty who engage in Pro-Palestine actions on university campuses. | The Baffler
- Hannah Weber on creativity, AI, and Hamid Ismailov’s We Computers. | Words Without Borders
- From turf wars to ephemeral treats, Olivia Potts looks at the very weird history of ice cream trucks. | Longreads
- Anthropic has settled its AI piracy lawsuit. | The Verge
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