Lit Hub Daily: November 12, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1984, Chester Himes dies.
- What’s kept us interested in The Sun Also Rises after a century, despite “some barbed wire and thorns in the perimeter of its effects, ones that must be leapt past and over”?
- How Russian defector Boris Krukoff plundered the Amazon in the name of American pharmaceuticals. | Lit Hub History
- Katrina Dodson’s TBR includes titles by Nicholas Boggs, Tom Overton, Mónica de la Torre, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Think you saw every great debut novel in 2026? Think again. Maris Kreizman recommends 10 you might have missed. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “I propose that, far from being an outlier in DeLillo’s twentieth-century canon, [Amazons] is central to his work.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- As we close in on the quarterfinals, you’ve narrowed down the competition. Which show will be crowned The Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time? Keep voting to find out. | Lit Hub
- Would the world survive a war between two global superpowers? “No conflict in the world today has the capacity, if miscalculated, of bringing ruin upon us all, like the one between the United States and China.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Karabi Acharya recommends books to help understand multiracial America by Barack Obama, Jose Antonio Vargas, Jhumpa Lahiri and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “When my husband comes into the bedroom we have shared for thirteen years and tells me he doesn’t want to be married anymore, I reach for my neck. My head is missing.” Read from Avni Doshi’s new novel, The First House. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I suppose I invented them because I wanted some exciting pretend friends.” Barbara Trapido talks to Rosa Lyster about her novel Brother of the More Famous Jack, 30 years on. | The Paris Review
- Ben Bariach and Harry Law consider the danger of the AI swarm. | Noema
- AO3 is still down, and the internet’s become a battleground for writers versus readers. | Wired
- “This is a testament to both its genuine incoherence and its distinctly experimental aesthetics.” On The Adolescent, Dostoevsky’s greatest flop. | Public Books
- Jamie Hood considers Courtney Bush’s Learning, K Chiucarello’s Nanny Nanny, and the joys and perils of working in childcare. | The New Yorker
- Lisa Allardice profiles new Booker Prize winner M John Harrison. | The Guardian
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