Lit Hub Daily: March 2, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1909, Katherine Mansfield, at this time pregnant by another man, marries singing teacher George Bowden in London, leaving him the same evening to resume her relationship with Ida Baker.
- “Over the years, though, I noticed that some of those people would start thinking about politics only after something happened to them, or to someone they loved.” Virginia Marshall discusses art, repression and exile with Svetlana Satchkova, author of The Undead. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- This month’s best sci-fi and fantasy books include titles by Alexis Hall, Jenn Lyons, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- The roles of bluffing and secrecy in our interactions with others (or, how lying can help—and hurt—us). | Lit Hub Science
- Caroline Carlson highlights upcoming children’s books from Esmé Shapiro, Anne Wynter, Laurel Snyder and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Read Jarrett Dapier’s graphic depiction of action, hope, and love in the face of book censorship. | Lit Hub Art
- Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry in March by Andrés Cerpa, Monica Ferrell, Melissa Range, and others. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The greatest gardeners in these parts, / as almost everywhere, have left no trace.” Read from Jonathan Galassi’s book-length poem, The Vineyard. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Bess Pfeiffer didn’t mean to start anything when she walked into Honey Finnegan’s house with seven copies of The Joy of Sex. She thought it would be fun.” Read from Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s new novel, Lake Effect. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “You watch what you wear, think twice about what you say, here as anywhere. This is how empires collapse.” Siddhartha Deb’s memoir of disenchantment, from Calcutta to Columbia. | Equator
- Joy Williams on the “fragile, ghost-haunted, unironic, unthrifty, reliant, romantic, intermittently animistic, and decidedly non-avant-garde” temperament of Rilke. | NYRB
- Grace Byron considers vaugeposting as an “antidote to oversharing.” | Dirt
- “I cheat on one book with another book, and then I cheat on that book when another book catches my wandering eye. I am a bookanizer.” On the joys of being a chaotic reader. | Defector
- Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen examines the accuracy of popular tropes about psychopaths. | Aeon
- Jamieson Webster on Hélène Cixous’s novel, Angst: “To be a recognizable and representable person is a forced choice, enacted in enormous angst, and which brings with it a heavy price.” | The Paris Review
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