Lit Hub Daily: March 19, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1933, Philip Roth is born.
- “Maybe the ghostly energy of the artist does lives on in the art, the way an author’s imagination remains in the ink on the page.” Karma Brown explores the similarities between art conservation and fiction writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “A family is always a bit of a fantasy, requiring some realist puncturing. Every good biographer, then, is a problem child.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Read “It’s a Steal,” a poem by Seema Jilani: “private olive grove / roots endure / relentless / undaunted / inexorable / extermination ongoing.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “When Sami woke up from his nap on the cozy, oversized leather recliner, an old black-and-white Egyptian film was playing on the gigantic TV screen.” Read from Sinan Antoon’s new novel, Of Loss and Lavender. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “By virtue of ending, the novel sucks the oxygen out of life, but it rewards me in return with something of immense significance—namely, with significance itself.” Michel Chaouli on reading to the very end. | The Yale Review
- Katha Pollit considers Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir and the limits of anti-carceral feminism. | The Nation
- Camille T. Dungy and Sean Hill discuss poetry, communal memory, and being Black in America. | Orion
- Silicon Valley’s elite have become obsessed with the concept of taste. Too bad they don’t have any! | The New Yorker
- Miaad Banki on translating through the Tehran blackout. | Public Books
- Betsy Golden Kellem explores the 19th century “re-gendering” of theater. | JSTOR Daily
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