Lit Hub Daily: June 17, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1938, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone is published.
- Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit Hub Craft
- Aaron Boehmer considers the future of ethnic studies and academia in crisis: “While no protest, demonstration, or amount of organizing can resurrect the dead, perhaps such actions can chart a new course.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The n-word felt like it could last a lifetime.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor remembers navigating American racism as a child with a famous father. | Lit Hub Memoir
- On redeeming Freud through fiction: “But while pain may be an inevitable consequence of the life drive, it is always inadvertent and unwitting.” | Lit Hub Craft
- What a post office that handles letters for the dead reveals about the ways we cope with loss. | Lit Hub History
- What even the most vanilla among us can learn from BDSM. | Lit Hub Health
- How the military and corporate forces that developed GPS turned us all into little dots on a map. | Lit Hub Technology
- Deni Elliott explores the ethics of adapting to her progressive blindness. | Lit Hub MemoirWhy artificial light could be contributing to your insomnia. | Lit Hub Health
- “What am I looking at? Ships?” Read from Keith Ridgway’s new novel, Dooneen. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera on exile, Edward Said, and “the scars of ‘Americanization.’” | Public Books
- Xia Jia on writing and the limits of both human and artificial intelligence. | The MIT Press Reader
- Why travelers are going hard for literary vacations. | The New York Times
- Caleb Brennan explores the fascist internet nihilism of groyper politics. | The Baffler
- “There are specialists for whom cleaning up and locking down one’s digital record is a matter of obsession.” The real-life horrors of cloud storage in a world of digital surveillance. | New York Magazine
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