Lit Hub Daily: March 23, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1917, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf purchase a used handpress. A month later, Hogarth Press is born.
- “People often believe that we can understand things simply by categorizing them, and that bothers me.” Leanne Ogasawara in conversation with Mieko Kawakami and her translators, Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio. | Lit Hub On Translation
- Caroline Tracey explores the relationship between Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and salt lakes. | Lit Hub Craft
- A modern history of American science and healthcare through the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. | Lit Hub Politics
- How The Secret Garden inspired Pepper Basham’s love for British literature: “I can still find my way there through these pages. Some gardens, it turns out, are always in season.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- This week in literary history: Hugo Grotius escapes prison in a book chest. | Lit Hub History
- “The front door is open and the full length of Daithí fills the frame. He leans against the doorjamb, soaking in the unexpected heat from the autumn sunshine.” Read from Charleen Hurtubise’s new novel, Saoirse. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I imagined that my literature degree would catapult me into the offices of literary magazines, publishing houses, or graduate classrooms, where people pore over words with admiration the way I do…” On building a career as an AI humanizer. | Slate
- Charlie Tyson meditates on Thomas De Quincey’s “The English Mail-Coach.” | Public Books
- On the (mis)diagnosis of Franz Kafka: “Many psychoanalytically informed critics (though not all) have judged Kafka to be a writer of schizophrenia.” | The Paris Review
- What the scandal surrounding Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl signals about publishing and generative AI. | The New York Times
- “Bitch is a linguistic chameleon: there are good bitches and bad bitches; boss bitches and perfect bitches; sexy, difficult, dangerous or even psycho bitches.” How language evolves alongside changing ideas about gender and power. | Aeon
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