Lit Hub Daily: March 27, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1926, Frank O’ Hara is born.
- Langston Hughes, translator? Ricardo Wilson II explores the writer’s experience in Mexico and his struggle to bring Mexican and Cuban writers to American audiences. | Lit Hub Biography
- “Alongside noting each season’s nod to diversity, there has been a steady critique of what the series glosses over, particularly the oppressive, often violent hierarchies, masked by fashion and sentiment.” Patricia Matthew considers the fourth season of Bridgerton. | Lit Hub TV
- Yann Martel explains why writers need to “follow the chemistry.” | Lit Hub Craft
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Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch, Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn, and Chrisopher Clark’s A Scandal in Königsberg all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. | Book Marks
- Adrian McKinty on when science killed God (and Richard Holmes’s The Boundless Deep): “If Darwin killed God and Kelvin killed any point to doing anything where does that leave the artist or indeed the ordinary human being?” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Poet Maggie Smith takes you on a tour of her writing space. | Lit Hub Craft
- “To Baba, the lush voices and machine-backed rhythm were a bitter impwa dish, which clung to the tongue even after several glasses of water.” Read from Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s new novel, The Shipikisha Club. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Ariella Garmaise digs into the controversy surrounding Nan Goldin’s Stendhal Syndrome. | The Walrus
- Revisiting the story of the Toulagoo Nine, a group of Black college students arrested for protesting the segregation of public spaces (by reading at the library). | Smithsonian Magazine
- “I wanted to do something with my hands, something real, tangible, and material. Pleasure and mastery.” Peter Wayne Moe on finding a small way to resist AI. | Longreads
- “There’s no conflict in Death Comes for the Archbishop, except for the grinding of tectonic plates, the breaking of treaties, the murder of nations.” Patricia Lockwood on Willa Cather. | London Review of Books
- Riley MacLeod cooks the joke vegetarian food from Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For. | Aftermath
- The internet’s free encyclopedia has banned AI-generated article content: “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies.” | 404 Media
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