Lit Hub Daily: March 5, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1839, Charlotte Bronte declines Reverend Henry Nussey’s marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her “romantic and eccentric” and not practical enough to be a clergyman’s wife.
- How a bill targeting trans literature could ban all LGBTQ+ books from American public schools (and why you should care). | Lit Hub Politics
- “What is it about motherhood and ghosts?” Lesley Jenike looks at The Haunting of Hill House through the lens of raising children. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- On Ezra Pound, Mussolini’s biggest fan: “…Pound lauded Mussolini’s accomplishments—such as reducing crime and improving Italy’s road and railway networks—while also advocating that fascism was the only cure…” | Lit Hub Biography
- “We can go to poetry to mark the design of the world we see and the world we desire to conjure.” Camonghne Felix on the liberatory potential of poetry. | Lit Hub Craft
- “The beauty and breadth of the landscape stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week | Book Marks
- How expanding educational opportunities can carve paths away from poverty. | Lit Hub Politics
- Marissa Levien makes a case against gamified reading. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “January wears two faces— / you will call one future, the other / history, both are elsewhere.” Read Carolina Ebeid’s poem “The Terrible Years.” from the collection, Hide. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “When Sneaky Snook in his mail truck happened upon the wreckage near the boundary of Meredith Downs, sheep were scattered along the roadside and the fence, bleating, dazed.” Read from M.L. Stedman’s new novel, A Far-flung Life. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Move over, Heated Rivalry. Pete Segall looks into Don DeLillo’s funniest novel: a secret hockey sex romp. | Defector
- NPR considers Iran through the eyes of its artists, filmmakers, and novelists. | NPR
- Grace Byron considers the endless hypocrisy—and banality—of Bari Weiss. | The Nation
- Artist Bethany Collins discusses the hopeful act of transcribing Moby-Dick by hand. | T Magazine
- “These bantering, randomly selected emails seem to show that Epstein wasn’t depraved, corrupt, or dodgy some of the time. He was depraved, corrupt, and proud of it all day long.” Anne Enright reads a full day of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails. | NYRB
- Wikipedia’s fight against AI continues with hallucinations in translation. | 404 Media
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