Lit Hub Daily: March 18, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1768, Laurence Sterne dies.
- Ibram X. Kendi explains how The Great Replacement Theory made its way from rural France to the heart of American power. | Lit Hub Politics
- Casey Scieszka considers Tuck Everlasting, immortality, and the illusion of youth. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Heidi was pioneering how reality TV could turn old news into melodrama, eroding any distance between entertainment and fact.” Jack Balderrama Morley examines the beautiful, terrible, villains of reality television. | Lit Hub TV
- Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German mystic who destigmatized childbirth and motherhood in medieval Europe. | Lit Hub History
- Haruka Iwasaki recommends celebrity/normal person romance novels by Jasmine Guillory, Rachel Reid, Alexandra Romanoff, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “It doesn’t help that by the time we figure anything out, we are already losing our minds.” Why life’s brevity is a beautiful, human thing. | Lit Hub Health
- Svetlana Satchkova on the logic of authoritarianism and the collapse of literary freedom in Russia. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I kissed Alice for the first time later that afternoon as she wrestled with the wringer washer in the laundry nook off the kitchen.” Read from Nancy Foley’s new novel, I Am Agatha. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Take a look inside the tiny Mystery Pier Books, the rare bookstore beloved by Hollywood heavies. | Esquire
- Ashley Bishop considers Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”—the Gilded Age poem that became “an ideological litmus test, depending on where you stood on capital versus labor”—and wonders who will tell the story of our current Gilded Age. | Jacobin
- How scientists use John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts’s Sea of Cortez to trace ecological changes in the Gulf of California. | JSTOR Daily
- Traci Brimhall meets the devil: “I want to think it’s an omen, but this is the girl in me, the one who wanted to be brave enough to say Bloody Mary three times in a bathroom mirror in the dark, but just like my girl self, I don’t have the courage.” | Virginia Quarterly Review
- Ned Resnikoff considers theories of the performative alongside performative men, performative reading, and performative politics. | The Nation
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