Lit Hub Daily: February 13, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1891, Welsh-language author Kate Roberts is born.
- LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Sun Yung Shin on the ever-shifting meanings of US citizenship • Michael Torres on life in the lens of authoritarianism. | Lit Hub Politics
- Don’t have a real date for Valentine’s Day? Pick up a romance novel about fake dating instead. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- If a blind date is more your speed, Jess deCourcy Hinds considers 13 ways to look at the Blind Date With a Book phenomenon. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “If you’ve learned to want something enough, liking it becomes almost irrelevant.” Tom Bellamy explains the science behind desire and yearning. | Lit Hub Science
- Anna Nygren remembers the time her father bought Foucault’s old car: “Since my dad doesn’t know who Foucault is and I’m bad at explaining, we watch a YouTube video.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav on translating Holocaust literature “at a moment when such seeing is urgently needed.” | Lit Hub On Translation
- Katie da Cunha Lewin explores the joys of (quiet) communal writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- Allegra Goodman’s This Is Not About Us, Richard Holmes’ The Boundless Deep, and Helle Helle’s they all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Michael Lowenthal on jazz, musicianship, and learning from playing Sun Ra in college. | Lit Hub Music
- “It was during the first few weeks when people were just starting to return from evacuation.” Read “No Matter When,” a story by Itsik Kipnis from the anthology In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union. | Lit Hub Fiction
- New bills in Florida seek to intensify school book bans and deny children access to literature. | Miami New Times
- Shawna Lipton examines the rebranding of Wuthering Heights (and Emily Brontë’s smut era). | Public Books
- “It became increasingly clear that in the media, the controversy was being perceived through an ideological lens rather than a literary one.” Neriman Kuyucu Norman explores the line between plagiarism and intertextuality. | Asymptote
- John Mohr understands why the live-action Dilbert pilot was never picked up. | Defector
- How Dante and Milton subverted Hell in their visions of the underworld. | Aeon
- Paul McAdory considers our (misguided) obsession with historical accuracy in film adaptations. | The New York Times Magazine
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