Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1962, Vita Sackville-West dies.
- “Ants deserve more poems.” Hannah Brooks-Motl praises poetry about insects by John Clare, William Blake, David Seung, and more. | Lit Hub Craft
- Christopher Spaide on why similes are having a moment in new poetry collections by Benjamin Zephaniah, Taylor Portela, Ashley D. Escobar and more. | Lit Hub Poetry
- This month’s new children’s books promise fantastic adventures and page-turning mystery! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land.” Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the medicinal plants of the Adirondacks. | Lit Hub Nature
- June’s best new sci-fi and fantasy books include titles by Megan Giddings, Kate Elliott, Tessa Gratton, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Brendan O’Meara chronicles the hard-won defeat of runner Steve Prefontaine’s 1972 Olympic debut. | Lit Hub Sports
- “Organic chemistry quickly became a game.” Read from Austen Taylor’s new novel, Notes on Infinity. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins goes deep on the craft of overhauling his Pulitzer-winning play. | New York Magazine
- “It’s about falling for someone and then wistfully and willfully losing that someone, while also trying to invent a spatial distribution of the soul that would allow one to feel connected to that person but also alone.” Claudia Durastanti on Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Separate Rooms. | The Paris Review
- What Melissa Febos learned attempting a year of celibacy. | The New York Times Magazine
- Ben Okri remembers his friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. | The Guardian
- “In a nation like the United States, which for centuries presumed limitlessness, foreign policy has long been the venue where hegemony—moral notions of how to organize society—has been forged.” Greg Grandin on his book America, América and the entwined histories of the United States and Latin America. | The Baffler
- Paul North on the end of the American empire and Karl Marx’s essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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