Lit Hub Daily: December 2, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1844, Emily Brontë writes the poem “A Death-Scene.” In 1846, it is published in a book collecting poetry by Brontë and her siblings.
- Round out your end of the year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Sarah Aziza on Gaza, genocide, and the graveyard of meanings: “Confronted with the monster’s throat, you reached for what you knew. Language as reflex, flinging vocabulary at void.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Soon it won’t just be birthday greetings and opening gambits on Hinge that people outsource to AI.” Matt Greene explains why LLMs are built for a post-meaning world. | Lit Hub Craft
- The 22 new books out today include titles by Elizabeth McCracken, Olga Tokarczuk, Olivia Nuzzi, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy remember playing piano under Marfa’s big Texas skies. | Lit Hub Music
- Our friends at AudioFile share their picks for the best audiobooks of 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jane Ciabattari talks to debut author Lauren Rothery about her novel, Television. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “That man had a beautiful, exotic name—Leo. And that’s what he looked like too, like a lion.” Read from Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “A sense of humor is quite an intelligent way of processing the world, and it’s easy for people to dismiss that if they don’t have one.” Rosa Lyster catches up with (the very funny) Helen Fielding. | The Paris Review
- Alex Shephard uncovers Bari Weiss’ big secret: She’s really boring. | The New Republic
- Johanna Winant considers the quiet radicality of close reading: “Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder.” | Boston Review
- Jake Offenhartz spends a day with Mahmood Mamdani, the author of 12 books and, more recently, father of New York City’s mayor elect. | The New Yorker
- Asa West hunts down a movie that terrified her as a kid. | Reactor
- “I could throw this baked potato at this guy’s head right now, I sat there thinking. It would hit him right in the face.” Mike Nagel explores not being famous. | Dirt
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