Lit Hub Daily: December 11, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1916, Elena Garro is born.
- These are the best book covers of 2025 (as chosen by some of the industry’s best cover designers). | Lit Hub Design
- Did Jane Austen invent the wellness guy? The iconic author “was a perceptive observer of male vanity.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- On Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson and the making of the poet’s reclusive mythology. | Lit Hub Biography
- Zefyr Lisowski’s TBR features books by Dorothy Allison, Aria Aber, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Anjuman’s murder doesn’t make her unique—depressingly, it’s quite the opposite.” Diana Arterian considers the poetry and resistance of Nadia Anjuman. | Lit Hub Craft
- “This is the story of Iñe-e’s death. It is also the story of how she lost her name and her home, and the story of how she remains vigilant.” Read from Micheliny Verunschk’s novel The Jaguar’s Roar, translated by Juliana Barbassa. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Nissa Parmar examines the political power of poetry. | JSTOR Daily
- “Balle treats her speculative framework like a petri dish wherein she can experiment with new lines of inquiry in clipped, plain language.” Conor Truax considers Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume. | The Baffler
- Why Hannah Kingsley-Ma recommends James Marshall’s George and Martha books to everyone. | The New York Times Magazine
- Why science fiction literature needs to let readers into the lab. | Public Books
- “It felt, at times, like navigating shark-infested waters in a leaky boat—while bleeding out from all the barbs and arrows.” On “good for her” novels and the state of women in horror. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- AM Gelberg reflects on outgrowing childhood heroes: “When I initially wrote about Percy Jackson, I was a first-year teacher.” | Reactor
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