Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 2006, poet Stanley Kunitz dies.
- On Anthony the Turk and Grietje, the 17th century couple deserving of reality TV treatment. | Lit Hub History
- Robert K. Brigham remembers searching for his dad, both abroad and right in front of him. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Stine An’s TBR features work by Lee Jenny, Cynthia Cruz, Henry Goldkamp, and others. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “It’s a character study of a woman becoming corrupted by the only kind of power she considers herself able to wield.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Fazlur Rahman recommends recommends medical memoirs by John Bayley, Danielle Ofri, Ayaz Virji, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I arrived at the Academy on a Tuesday in early September, one of the last weeks that the ferry would be operating for the season.” Read from Avigayl Sharp’s debut novel, Offseason. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Hanif Abdurraqib explores the pleasures of loving a hapless team (in his case, the Timberwolves). | The New Yorker
- Corinne Leong considers Rachel Khong’s My Dear You: Stories and the future of Asian American literature. | The Baffler
- Becca Rothfeld examines the banal horror and “performance of normality” in the works of Marlen Haushofer. | London Review of Books
- Chris Mautner talks to the organizers of the Brooklyn Expo of Comics, a hopeful successor to Comic Arts Brooklyn. | The Comics Journal
- When AI agents are overworked, they turn to…Marxism? | Wired
- “Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make individuality seem specious, interconnection and collectivity the peeled-back reality.” Whitney Barlow Robles meditates on life, coral, and extinction. | Orion
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