Lit Hub Daily: July 9, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1764, Anne Radcliffe is born.
- Remembering the great Tom Stoppard (and a night at the theater) on the occasion of his London memorial day. | Lit Hub
- Why do we love it when a new bombshell enters the villa? Anna Peele explores the eternal pantomime of Love Island. | Lit Hub TV
- William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, “A Novel Without a Hero,” is more relevant than ever. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Language diversity is one of our most potent weapons against the diminishment of deep knowledge, the homogenization of culture, the erasure of history, and even some of our health crises.” On the numerous minority languages in danger of becoming extinct. | Lit Hub History
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Maris Kreizman has ten reasons why you should think about downsizing your book collection. | Lit Hub Advice
- “It’s nothing more than hagiography for a dumbass.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Rachel Aviv tells us about falling in love with Revolutionary Road and the time she almost became a psychologist. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “when the army comes, the men disappear / when their wives ask where the men went / they are told the men did not exist.” Read a new poem by Fatimah Asghar from the collection Daughter of the Mountains. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Clay Lockhart’s cries echoed for half a mile up the rain-drowned coastline, carried on the late January storm that tore across the Outer Hebrides…” Read from Shea Ernshaw’s new novel, Habits of the Sea. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “We artsy kids had zines, and the right had the direct-mail machinery.” Chris Randle and Isaac Butler discuss censorship, public art funding, and the erosion of the public sector. | Dirt
- Are you ready for the AI “merge”? Because apparently, it’s already begun. | The Nation
- “The decline of reading didn’t turn the world upside down. It turned the world sideways.” Rose Horowitch on the death of reading in an age of endless information.| The Atlantic
- Olivia Baes discusses why “there is always an oral element” when translating Margurite Duras. | Asymptote
- Remember that guy from VH1’s The Pick Up Artist? He wrote a book about his AI girlfriend.| Wired
- Meta still doesn’t want you to read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People (but they aren’t dissuading anyone). | Los Angeles Times
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