Lit Hub Daily: July 2, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1977, Vladimir Nabokov dies.
- Why the Frederick Douglass speech we should revisit this July 4th isn’t the obvious one. | Lit Hub History
- These 10 great children’s books out in July include new work from Jaque Jours, Celeste Pewter, Sumayyah Beck and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Am I the asshole for refusing an invitation to submit work?” And other questions answered this week by Kristen Arnett. | Lit Hub Advice
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “If you find yourself hanging on every word of a whispered story, chances are the reader will too.” On John Updike and small town literary gossip. | Lit Hub Craft
- Ten great nonfiction titles to read in July, featuring Books by Cal Flyn, Eyal Weitzman, Michael Cunningham, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Victoria Chang, Anna Journey, Phillip B. Williams, and more poets have incredible new work out this month. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “The desire for human connection, and the desire to commemorate that connection, transcends everything.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- July’s best new sci-fi and fantasy books transport you to worlds of sapphic knights and demon sacrifices. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- This week on the podcast PASSAGES: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and Saeed Jones discuss Toni Morrison, “master of shade.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now.” Read from Guillermo Stitch’s new novel, The Coast of Everything. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Samer Abu Hawwash and Huda J. Fakhreddine discuss Palestinian poetry in a time of genocide. | Asymptote
- Kyle Mandell dives into the archives of The Jewish Gazette, an Irish Jewish newspaper of the 1930s. | JSTOR Daily
- Five years after Anthony Broadwater was cleared of sexually assaulting Alice Sebold, Joaquin Sapien returns to the story. | ProPublica
- “One might have thought it a good idea to include some scholars who are informed by or at least somewhat sympathetic to some of the contemporary trends being criticized.” Richard Moran on the wrong way to criticize the humanities. | Boston Magazine
- “Censuring works without having encountered them firsthand, misrepresenting facts, and taking elements wildly out of context became the strategy of the cultural warriors.” How culture wars feed into art censorship. | The Baffler
- Exploring the genius of board books through the work of Sandra Boynton. | The New York Times
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