Lit Hub Daily: November 5, 2026

TODAY: In 1857, Ida Tarbell is born.

• Ed Simon explores the symbol of Guy Fawkes and V for Vendetta‘s anti-authoritarian afterlives. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on lessons learned from June Jordan: “Life is ACTION, inaction is DEATH! If you can’t see that, at this point in history, you’re gone.” | Lit Hub Biography
• The other members of my book club really want to read some true crime. Am I the asshole if that makes me want to leave? | Lit Hub Advice
• Why studying men in art history sometimes feels like summoning “absolute monsters” from their graves. | Lit Hub Art
• Step inside Eudora Welty’s Jackson, Mississippi home. | Lit Hub Biography
• Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
• “Reading it is like opening the hall closet and having the contents of an antique junk shop, laced with spiky and rusted farm implements, spill out and maim your dog.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• “The grandfather looks out at the sky and the bright red earth. He instinctively raises the back of his hand to his brow to wipe away a few beads of sweat.” Read from Zineb Mekouar’s novel Remember the Bees, translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Bernardo Jurema and Elias König talk to Timothy Mitchell about the future, escalating state violence, and his book, The Alibi of Capital. | Protean
• How the phone book,  a “book without a genre, at once mundane and mysterious,” created modern ideas of information. | JSTOR Daily
• Jerome Stueart examines religious gatekeeping around The Chronicles of Narnia. | Reactor
• American voters are saying no (!!!!!) to data centers. | 404 Media
• An ode to femgore: “In this new era of women’s cannibal literature, the anthropophagy is literal.” | Los Angeles Review of Books