Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026
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- What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe, literary icon. | Lit Hub Biography
- “I didn’t need professors. I didn’t need a lot of external guidance.” Why the best way to read “great books” is whenever you want and at your own pace. | Lit Hub Criticism
- In this episode of Passages: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and Hanif Abdurraqib consider Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- This week in literary history, Ira Aldridge debuts as Othello on the London stage. | Lit Hub History
- If you’re gay, chances are you love a good ghost. Natalie Adler recommends gay ghost stories by Henry James, Vernon Lee, Shirley Jackson and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Claudia Verhoeven chronicles the Helter Skelter details of the Manson Murders. | Lit Hub Biography
- Sarah M. S. Pearsall discusses the 18th century indigenous rebellion that predated the American Revolution. | Lit Hub History
- Joe Bond’s dad gives his novel a post-publication fact-check. | Lit Hub Craft
- “This morning, as I turned onto a street in the city where I live now, I thought I recognized his face, his walk.” Read from Philippe Besson’s novel The Summer Boy, translated by Sam Taylor. | Lit Hub Fiction
- David O’Neill explores the beauty (and utility) of weird writing advice. | The New Yorker
- Dan Chiasson talks growing up in Bernie’s Burlington. | Jacobin
- Gaby del Valle wonders if a person can actually tell whether or not a piece of prose was composed by AI. | The Verge
- Susan Choi considers Donald Barthelme’s Sixty Stories: “A major aspect of his genius was concision.” | The Paris Review
- On the necessity of archiving writing (including writing about Magic: The Gathering). | 404 Media
- Reading for relatability and how algorithm-driven platforms have changed the way we talk about literature. | The Point
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