Lit Hub Daily: February 27, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1951, W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham marry in Queens, New York.
- What do February’s best book covers have in common? Red. | Lit Hub Design
- Kelly Link, Kevin Barry, Mona Awad and more writers on when they write and why. | Lit Hub Craft
- From ancient Greece and onward, Peter Meineck chronicles the heroes who inspired the creation of Captain America. | Lit Hub Art
- Check out the literary film and television coming to a streaming service near you. | Lit Hub Film
- Writers on Freud, Karen Russell, and more: these new paperbacks are coming in March. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Lauren Groff’s Brawler, Namwali Serpell’s On Morrison, Tayari Jones’s Kin, and Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life all feature among February’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Tobias Carroll on the shockingly mixed fascist (and antifascist) legacies of England’s Mosley family. | Lit Hub Biography
- “When the subways are gone to dust, this will still be there.” Allen Ginsberg on poetic honesty. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Xiao Sang sat at her desk writing in her diary.” Read from Can Xue’s The Enchanting Lives of Others, translated by Annelise Finegan. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Many queer writers excel at this, but when straight sex comes up in contemporary literature, authors have a marked tendency to approach it and then, in one way or another, twist away.” Lily Meyer on the “puritan strain” in recent literary fiction. | The Atlantic
- Rachel Vorona Cote considers Claire Baglin’s On the Clock and asks if contemporary fiction ignores the working class. | The Nation
- Lucy Osler explains why you’re more likely to develop AI psychosis than join a cult. | Nautilus
- What’s up with Noam Chomsky’s Epstein friendship? | The New Republic
- Tayari Jones recommends the best spots in Atlanta. | Vogue
- “What is neglected by those sounding the death knell of the humanities is any assessment of the actual quality of college essay writing that AI based on large language models can produce.” Ben Parker separates the reality of AI essay writing from the clickbait. | Public Books
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