Lit Hub Daily: February 9, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1931, Thomas Bernhard is born.
- Evie Schockley reflects on Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: “The story of her life is, by definition, a biomythography: an explanation of the inexplicable.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “An addict doesn’t not love you, at least in my mother’s case, but an addict robs from you your peace of mind, and they can’t see it.” Kevin McEnroe on his mom, Tatum O’Neal. | Lit Hub Memoir
- What happened this week in literary history? Voltaire returns from exile (and 300 people come to visit). | Lit Hub History
- Sophie Newman talks to Naomi Washer, author of Marginalia, about psychoanalysis, autobiography, and the self. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How gerrymandering destroys multiracial voting coalitions and helps Republicans maintain power in Texas and Georgia. | Lit Hub Politics
- “As soon as Little Professor and Ning On entered the hotel room, he wrapped his arms around her from behind, kissing her hair at the nape of her neck.” Read from Gigi L. Leung’s novel Everyday Movement, translated by Jennifer Feeley. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “That’s the paradox of taste. Your taste can say a lot about you, and yet it’s not actually about you.” Joshua Rothman contemplates questions of taste. | The New Yorker
- Ashley Parker considers the murder of The Washington Post. | The Atlantic
- “Goddam it’s cold. But I was raised here. I know that winter is just a season. I know that moving fast and sloppy in these conditions will put you on your ass quick.” Danez Smith on the ruthless moment in Minnesota. | Jewish Currents
- Heather McCalden ruminates on the struggle to articulate the feeling of an old world fading away. | Dirt
- “I am disgusted by blood, so I looked away but felt the strange catharsis of bodily chaos.” On Traitors, triptychs, and The Garden of Earthly Delights. | The Paris Review
- Alexandra Kleeman considers Letterboxd and the future of film criticism. | The New York Times Magazine
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