Lit Hub Daily: November 25, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1845, Portuguese realist writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós is born.
- Kate Eichhorn examines the Supreme Court decision that led to widespread political censorship in school yearbooks. | Lit Hub History
- “I love the way a writer leaning into what an artist does can transcend both of them to make something greater.” Paul Cornell, Stuart Moore, and Chris Ryall on loving Marvel comics. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Anna Whitelock chronicles the creation of the Ulster Plantation and Britain’s early history of colonization in Ireland. | Lit Hub History
- The 16 new books out today include titles by Yoko Towada, Sven Beckert, Juhea Kim, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Why do we need to dream? “Absent the constants and demands that tether waking life, we drift freely through memory networks and enter without limits into our personal past, reliving experience through dreams.” | Lit Hub Science
- How crossword puzzles built Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | Lit Hub History
- “And then it was over, the final visit to Claire’s oncologist. Eliot rose and shook the doctor’s hand.” Read from Ann Packer’s new novel, Some Bright Nowhere. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “This narrowing of attention—pleasure without context—marks a stark departure from the origins of foodie culture itself.” Alicia Kennedy considers the past and (imperiled) present of the foodie. | The Yale Review
- Lily Meyer explores the conviction of Stolen Flower, the trilingual poetry collection by Isthmus Zapotec poet and activist Irma Pineda. | Poetry
- Maggie Nelson and Lucy McKeon discuss The Argonauts at ten. | Pioneer Works
- “The mycelium/mushroom model works effectively as a way to convey the relationship between the singularity of a dream and the vast network of ideas from which it grows.” Sharon Sliwinski on fungus, Freud, and the endless networks of existence. | The MIT Press Reader
- D. Manns on Charles Godfrey Leland’s Aradia and the origins of modern witchcraft. | Public Domain Review
- Theia Chatelle reports on the universities that partnered with AI contractors to spy on student protesters. | The Intercept
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