Lit Hub Daily: July 18, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1845, symbolist poet Tristan Corbiere is born.
- The Defense Department wants to ban hundreds of books. Here are the weirdest titles. | The Hub
- “Gaza has become the world’s conscience—which is not something anybody asked for.” Hala Alyan discusses diaspora, healing, and her memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Why Rachel Carson’s relationship with Dorothy Freeman and her environmental writing are deeply entwined. | Lit Hub Politics
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Sakina’s Kiss all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of writing into beauty. | Lit Hub Craft
- Emily Buchanan rethinks climate grief through the lens of magical realism. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “My favorite novels are those that leave you thinking.” Chloe Michelle Howarth considers how pieces of writing should end. | Lit Hub Craft
- “The first time I went shooting in America I hit a tree.” Read from Tehila Hakimi’s novel Hunting in America, translated by Joanna Chen. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “It is one of these really interesting and very unusual situations where we have a legend that was widely known and hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages, and then very suddenly in the middle of the 16th century, in the High Renaissance, it’s just completely lost.” Researchers have finally solved a centuries-old literary cold case. | 404 Media
- Tori McCandless examines the queer joy of BBC Three’s I Kissed a Girl. | Public Books
- Gaby Del Valle investigates how ICE hit lists compiled by right wing groups endanger student protesters. | The Verge
- Alexander Chee writes about going to Denny’s: “I will feel a little more alone after that night in some way I will never understand and always try to forget.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Holly Beddingfield explores what it means to navigate the present media landscape as a Zillennial. | Dirt
- “Somewhere between lies the truth, that adult and child may as well be two different species for their mutual incomprehensibility.” Barry Petchesky on the otherworldly snowmen of Calvin and Hobbes. | Defector
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