Lit Hub Daily: May 1, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1919, the May Day Riots take place in Cleveland, Ohio. They will become the subject of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “May Day,” first published in The Smart Set in 1920.
- Is satire really dead? According to Erin Van Der Meer, we’re the ones who just aren’t getting it. | Lit Hub Humor
- “I would never deny a witch her will.” Lauren Groff considers the radical act of doing nothing. | Lit Hub Craft
- Caroline Carlson recommends 10 great children’s books coming in May by Christian Robinson, Stephen Barr, Lauren Wolk and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Why our prehistoric ancestors were actually incredible architects: “What began as simple returns to favored spots evolved into increasingly sophisticated and enduring manipulations of space that would ultimately distinguish us from every other species on Earth.” | Lit Hub History
- Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends 7 new poetry collections, including work by Carolina Ebeid, Laura Kasischke, and Luis Muñoz. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Kim Kardashian has become ubiquitous, as if she were a very hot dictator whose portrait hung in every home in America.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week | Book Marks
- These upcoming sci-fi and fantasy books will have you craving adventure in fantastical, futuristic worlds. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “At some point I stopped stopping / to write, life a mark of living not clicking.” Read “The Formal Beginnings of Packing,” a poem by Amanda Nadelberg from the collection Shake Until Cloudy. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “We were at my cousin Channing’s house, in the woods of a New England town, when our grandfather told us the Korean story of Chunhyang and Mongryong.” Read from Jimin Han’s new novel, Dreamt I Found You. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “When I do not reckon with the ways that casinos, betting apps, and late-stage capitalism operationalize my sadness, economic anxiety, and greed, I risk more privately and talk less about that risk publicly.” Kiese Laymon on gambling. | Vanity Fair
- Patrick McCray wonders: What is authorship in the age of ChatGPT? | The MIT Press Reader
- Good news! Young people increasingly hate AI. | The Verge
- Kang-Chun Cheng explores the fight to preserve ancient literature in Mauritania. | The Dial
- Unsurprisingly, the far right doesn’t understand Animal Farm. | Wired
- Michele Goodwin considers the misogyny and racism inherent to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. | The Nation
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