Lit Hub Daily: May 29, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1892, Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storni is born.
- Sara Youngblood Gregory looks at the speculative possibilities of queer literature and the last decade of AIDS writing. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I invite you to enter the ball pit of your imagination, where colorful spheres of foam are being tossed up into the air at random, chaotically, in no recognizable pattern or sequence, but somehow, they are connected.” Why writers should embrace the chaotic process of play. | Lit Hub Craft
- Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say, Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Douglas Stuart’s John of John, and Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories all feature among May’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- May’s best book covers gave us a moody, atmospheric spring. | Lit Hub Design
- Soham Patel examines the power of site-specific poetics: “I stood there in awe of everyone’s willingness and care, watching the room take on a life of its own.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Cape Fear, In the Hand of Dante, and the other pieces of literary film and TV coming to a streaming service near you. | Lit Hub Film
- June brings new paperbacks by Melissa Febos, Geoff Dyer, Catherine Lacey, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “On one screen, / bulbous bones push to escape / skin translucent like the situation.” Read “Parallel Lives,” a poem by Eman Abdelhadi from the collection Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “I nearly didn’t make it to Paris.” Read from Eduardo Halfon’s novel Tarantula, translated by Daniel Hahn. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Nonfiction publishing has no plan for skyrocketing AI adoption. | New York Magazine
- Angelina Mazza digs into the strange practice of updating the cultural references in YA books. | The New York Times
- “The fact that the current pope is able to condemn unfettered capitalism, militarism, and technocracy with an American accent is not incidental to its significance.” Ed Simon on the history of papal encyclicals. | The Hedgehog Review
- Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein on Italian literature and translation as a feminist practice. | Asymptote
- Claudia Grigg Edo explores the therapeutic value of rereading. | Granta
- Things got weird after reality TV villain Spencer Pratt wrote a memoir. | Jacobin
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