Lit Hub Daily: February 2, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1882 James Joyce is born (and in 1922, Ulysses is published in Paris).
- Get ready to obsess over the best book covers from January. | Lit Hub Design
- The 25 titles coming out in paperback this month include books on Robert Frost, Joni Mitchell, and Picasso! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Steve Snider remembers the process behind designing Infinite Jest’s original cover. | Lit Hub Art
- Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books that celebrate joy and community. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Max McGuinness writes in search of Proust’s legacy in Ireland: “If it makes sense to speak of an Irish Proust, it is as one strand within the wider continental perspective that frames his Search.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Prepare yourself for Frankenstein summer (and new sci-fi and fantasy books by Matt Dinniman, A.D. Sui, Makana Yamamoto, and more). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “If the decision to leave wasn’t entirely mine, the decision not to return is one I make consciously, every day.” On leaving your hometown. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “We walked toward Jaffa Gate. It was called Jaffa Gate because, long ago, at the end of their journey from the port of Jaffa, pilgrims walked through it.” Read from Ashraf Zaghal’s new novel, Seven Heavens Away. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “There is no correct way through this. You follow the advice that circulates, until it no longer applies. The circumstance is supernatural—a force majeure.” Anthony Dinh Tran on losing home and rebuilding in the year after the Eaton Fire. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Brian Raferty charts the rise of Hannibal Lecter-as-unlikely-antihero. | Longreads
- Livia Gershon chronicles the history of existential anxiety. | JSTOR Daily
- Why content produced by today’s “slopagandists” isn’t so different from good old fashioned yellow journalism. | The Verge
- Where’s the next big romance series lurking? Probably Ao3. | Vulture
- Frank M. Young looks at the Joe Brainard-illustrated C Comics: “Though Padgett declines to call this work avant-garde, its deconstruction of what comics were (and are) remains daring, risk-taking and humorous.” | The Comics Journal
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