Lit Hub Daily: November 7, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1872, Leonora Speyer is born.
- “A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani. | Lit Hub Politics
- Emma Donoghue explains why fact-based historical fiction still must negotiate with the truth. | Lit Hub Craft
- Jonathan Wilson explores the political and personal upheavals at the center of the 1938 FIFA World Cup. | Lit Hub Sports
- Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives, Sarah Hall’s Helm, and Anthony Hopkins’ We Did Ok, Kid all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Lynn Hershman Leeson remembers breaking the law to create art: “Christo and Jeanne-Claude became ever more insistent that the vision of Running Fence would not be complete unless it disappeared into the water.” | Lit Hub Art
- Dennis Funk on what you might miss by listening to podcasts on 1.5x speed. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Was the American Revolution actually a world war? “From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to the last cannon blasts at Cuddalore in southern India in 1783, the Revolution broke boundaries and crossed borders.” | Lit Hub History
- “Mostly I just walk right on by. / Today’s tour is for little details: / Careful looks in quick time.” Read two poems by MaKshya Tolbert from the collection, Shade is a place. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “I was mute when I spoke and once it was quiet I never stopped talking.” Read from Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s novel False War, translated by Natasha Wimmer. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another.” The role of AI in the war against libraries. | 404 Media
- Kristen Ghodsee explains why even flawed socialist systems reveal important truths about solidarity and equality. | The MIT Press Reader
- Jonathan Elmer meditates on the poet’s denigration of poetry. | Public Books
- Alton Melvar M Dapanas interviews Mayada Ibrahim about translating Arabophone African literature, literary versus non-literary translations, and more. | Asymptote
- Ryan Ruby considers what it means to read the transgressive avant-garde fiction of Pierre Guyotat in the age of social sadism. | The Baffler
- Colin Marshall considers Harold Brodkey’s 1992 essay, “Notes on American Fascism,” in the present. | The Point
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