Lit Hub Daily: March 11, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1959, A Raisin in the Sun debuts on Broadway.
- Devoney Looser explores 19th-century attitudes about menstruation through Jane Austen’s Period Drama, the Oscar-nominated short. | Lit Hub Film
- Logan Scherer remembers Michael Silverblatt, “The best reader in America.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Why her time as a gossip reporter helped Juliet Izon become a better writer. | Lit Hub Craft
- Sarvat Hasin recommends books about friendship breakups by Elena Ferrante, Sharlene Teo, Maeve Binchy, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “By adding an extra layer of restrictions… I think I found some kind of liberation.” On translating Vicente Luis Mora’s Centroeuropa. | Lit Hub On Translation
- On generational silences and what we do (and don’t) learn about our parents. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Who really killed Roe v. Wade? “I knew the obvious offenders: the Supreme Court justices and Republican presidents and the Christian Right legal organizations…but what about the lesser-known, more behind-the-scenes suspects.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “We were together in this life, him and me.” Alice Hoffman remembers a once-in-a-lifetime dog. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “On the plane back to the US, Gita felt inert.” Read from Karan Mahajan’s new novel, The Complex. | Lit Hub Fiction
- From Hamlet to Hamnet, Dana Stevens considers the inevitable “gaps in a historical figure’s life story.” | Yale Review
- Eli Cugini on the conservative strain coloring recent Pixar heroes. | The Baffler
- Sloane Crosley writes an ode to the “season of anodyne outrage”: Oscar (snubs) season. | The New York Times
- Rebecca Solnit talks to the Times about the “counternarratives that can lead to positive change.” | The New York Times
- “Morrison’s work was not meant to be a palatable salve. Instead, surprise and provocation are the ingredients of her fiction.” In praise of Toni Morrison’s difficulty. | The New Republic
- What Seamus Heaney and Dante have in common. | The Hudson Review
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