Lit Hub Daily: May 28, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1849, Anne Brontë dies.
- Spend your summer reading with Lit Hub! Welcome to the Best of the Best Books reading challenge, where you’ll have the chance to meet your reading goals, win prizes, and prove you’re better than your friends! | Lit Hub
- How AI is about to join the rest of the digital economy in making the “infrastructures of capitalism” so much worse. | Lit Hub Technology
- Bryan Karetnyk reflects on translating the work of Higuchi Ichiyō, Japan’s first working woman writer. | Lit Hub On Translation
- “The Kardashians don’t just reflect the zeitgeist, they create it, influencing the ways we spend our money, think about our bodies and understand online identity.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Blair Palmer Yoxall remembers the family history of Indigenous resistance that inspired his debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- On the podcast PASSAGES: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and Dionne Custer Edwards discuss Toni Morrison’s Sula. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “As snowflakes flutter gently in the air like the dancing wings of butterflies, dusting the earth as far as the eye can see in a powder of argent, their six-petalled crystals land on trees stripped bare by winter, a vista of spring blossoms to come.” Read “A Snowy Day” from Ichiyo Higuchi’s Troubled Waters, translated by Bryan Karetnyk. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jessica George explores Heathcliff Under a Tree and other works by literary printmaker Fritz Eichenberg. | JSTOR Daily
- Twenty years later, Abel Reyes gives the final page of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home a close reading. | The Comics Journal
- Why Nietzsche is the enemy of Silicon Valley techno-optimists. | The Point
- Katie Thornton attends the world’s longest running Esperanto convention and considers the promise of the universal language. | Harpers
- Why, in the era of sensitivity readers, “there is little room…for a meaningful reform of publishing.” | The Nation
- Katherine Williams takes a post-reality look at books that “wonder how to build back democracy and wring their hands about aesthetic encounters shaped ever-more by AI, platforms, and the attention economy.” | Dirt
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