Lit Hub Daily: January 26, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1944, Angela Davis is born.
- Maya al Zaben on literature as resistance, On the Zero Line, and the urgency of preserving Gaza’s culture. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Stefan Merrill Block recounts the misery of being an unwilling homeschooler. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I was thinking about chaos as a precursor to creation—like fire, which destroys but also purges and gives way to new life.” A conversation with Isabelle Baafi. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- On ancient myths, legends, and folklore of Russian forests. | Lit Hub History
- Tramaine Suubi recommends debut astropoetry collections by Ally Ang, Stefanie Niu, Diane Ackerman, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Abortion is OK, we know. But how are our kids supposed to believe us if we whisper it under our breath?” Why we shouldn’t feel bad about our abortions. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Graham Robb chronicles the earliest prehistoric settlements on what is now British land. | Lit Hub History
- “New Orleans shimmies: formed from a swamp into a Creole capital, it’s all sweat and longing, the sweet smell of decay and wild, wild wails.” Read from Betsy Sussler’s debut novel, Station of the Birds. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Inside Llewyn Davis is a “documentary about dating an aries,” and more Letterboxd reviews from Jo Barchi. | Dirt
- Víctor Navarro-Remesal considers the quiet reflection that “slow games” allow. | The MIT Press Reader
- Read some love letters from Nicolas Giraud to Lord Byron: “My precious Master, when I came to read in your letter of your desire to return here, I almost went mad from joy.” | The Paris Review
- Kelly Jensen considers the generational impact of book bans on teens and young readers. | Book Riot
- LLMs can (technically) write. But they can’t write memoir. | Aeon
- The bad AI generated headlines replacing ones written by editors and journalists are, according to Google, “a feature.” We disagree. | The Verge
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