Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1911, Czeslaw Milosz is born.
- Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History
- It’s finally your chance to snag books by Slutty Cheff, Nicholas Boggs, Benedict Nguyen, and more in paperback. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The third stage is panic. This is when the predator pounces.” What happens when powerful people threaten activists. | Lit Hub Politics
- Sometimes you write a historical novel (even when you aren’t trying to). | Lit Hub Craft
- The 16 new titles out today include work by Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- The literary film and TV you need to stream in July brings two takes on Legally Blonde. | Lit Hub Film
- “Ghulam Ali pushed his way through the sugar-cane. It was quiet and still except for the anxious scuttling of insects around his feet.” Read “July Sun,” the titular story from Aamina Ahmad’s new collection. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “This is a world of girls and boys. Its fundamental charm lies in its playground quality, in its capacity to speak not to our practical adult hopes but to our simple wish to belong.” Lillian Fishman on Love Island. | The New Yorker
- Inside William Kentridge’s studio, “a safe space for stupidity.” | Hyperallergic
- Corley Miller considers the similarities between the World Cup and how the clip functions online. | n+1
- “I’m more of a writer who draws than an artist who writes.” John Kelly interviews legendary cartoonist Kim Deitch. | The Comics Journal
- Upward Bound author Woody Brown and Jason Jacoby Lee consider the challenges that nonspeaking autistic people face (as nonspeaking autistic people). | Los Angeles Review of Books
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