Lit Hub Daily: February 28, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1916, Henry James dies.
- “There is a pleasure in being reminded that we don’t yet know all there is to know about the universe.” Karen Thompson Walker on the real (and unreal) in fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
- This week on The Lit Hub Podcast: Dan Sheehan chats with Omar El Akkad, Drew Broussard and Calvin Kasulke debate the merits of Lady MacBeth novels, and Olivia Rutigliano has some thoughts to share about The Oscars. | Lit Hub Radio
- From Bowie to baseball to Bitcoin: here are ten nonfiction books to check out in March. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- The 26 paperbacks coming out this month include books by Helen Oyeyemi, Ryan Chapman, Marie-Helene Bertino, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Ali Smith’s Gliff, Geraldine Brooks’ Memorial Days, Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June, and Hanif Kureishi’s Shattered all feature among February’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Green, pink, and every color in between: these are our favorite February book covers. | Lit Hub Design
- Stand By Me, The Virgin Suicides, The Leopard, and more pieces of literary film and TV are coming to a streaming service near you in March. | Lit Hub Film and TV
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share which audiobooks they’re most anticipating in March. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The road, though! Endless becoming, a colour palette always and somehow never changing, grey to green to brown to blue to other…” Read from Vijay Khurana’s novel, The Passenger Seat. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “In this fixed economy of spoils, there is little point to an institution whose goal is ‘equalizing.’” Jennifer C. Berkshire looks at Trump’s war on public education. | The Baffler
- Michael Lewis on his favorite literary one-hit wonders. | The New Yorker
- New poetry from Alberto Ríos, Donika Kelly, and David Baker, inspired by the latest scientific research. | Orion
- Doubleday’s Thomas Gebremedhin is launching a new paperback imprint, Outsider Editions, which will “reissue underappreciated literary works of all genres.” | Publishers Weekly
- Myriam Boulos on photographing destruction in Lebanon: “Many photojournalists have been photographing people on the streets, sleeping or awake, stripped of any privacy or agency…” | Granta
- Tim Brinkhof considers Rembrandt’s influence on the literature of his time and beyond. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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