Here are the finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize.
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen·25 Aug 2026
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize. This morning, Kirkus Reviews announced the 18 finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, which recognizes excellence in the categories of Fiction...
Lit Hub Daily: August 25, 2026
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily·25 Aug 2026
Lit Hub Daily: August 25, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today!
Literary Hubby Julia Hass·25 Aug 2026
Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today! We’ve all been reading about it for months, and now finally it’s time to read the thing itself: Life of M by Rachel Cusk...
What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Tryptiches Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview
Literary Hubby Catherine Daunt·25 Aug 2026
What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Tryptiches Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview Catherine Daunt on the Judgemental Christian Morality Underpinning the Dutch Painter’s Work While Giotto sought to...
What the World’s Nightscapes Reveal About Our Dependence on Artificial Light
Literary Hubby Sara B. Pritchard·25 Aug 2026
What the World’s Nightscapes Reveal About Our Dependence on Artificial Light Sara B. Pritchard on the History and Future of Days and Nights Across the Globe An image of Earth at night as seen from...
On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US
Literary Hubby Jared Huffman·25 Aug 2026
On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US Jared Huffman Chronicles the Evolution of Right-Wing Christianity, From the Moral Majority to MAGA UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s felt like the...
Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia
Literary Hubby Matthew Neill Null·25 Aug 2026
Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia Matthew Neill Null on the Silicon Valley Greed Leaching Into Canaan Valley The data centers have been speaking to me lately, in the...
A Poem by Antonella Anedda
Literary Hubby Antonella Anedda·25 Aug 2026
A Poem by Antonella Anedda From the Collection Emerging from the Winter Sea Storditi dalla nostalgia, confusi dai sogni, con i teli da bagno pieni di vento, con la rapida incompleta visione di una...
Last Day of a Prior Life
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts·25 Aug 2026
Here’s what happens: She sees the boy the first day the house goes on the market, while cleaning the kitchen between visits from two potential buyers.
Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday
Literary Hubby Steven W. Thrasher·24 Aug 2026
Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday “Jason was not just hounded out of academia, he was hounded out of existence.” Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media...
Dorthe Nors on Striving to Write Emotionally Resonant Fiction
Literary Hubby Dorthe Nors·24 Aug 2026
Dorthe Nors on Striving to Write Emotionally Resonant Fiction “As we know from the study of Goldilocks, fiction carries the deepest truths.” I published my first novel twenty-five years ago.
Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis
Literary Hubby Claire Boyles·24 Aug 2026
Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis Claire Boyles Considers the Ways Her Environmental Activism Informs Her Literary Life Years ago, during the Great Recession, I...
How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing
Literary Hubby R. Joshua Scannell·24 Aug 2026
How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing R. Joshua Scannell on the Intersection Between the Carceral State and Big Tech Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first...
Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up
Literary Hubby Christelle Dabos·24 Aug 2026
Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up “What if every human being were born with an irresistible need to do good?” It’s Sunday morning, September 18, 2016.
Gaining Ground
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts·24 Aug 2026
The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home. I do not mean I knew it in a peaceful, comforting sort of way, the way one recognizes an old friend; that first time it was like an electric...
Lit Hub Weekly: August 17 – 21, 2026
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily·22 Aug 2026
Lit Hub Weekly: August 17 - 21, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up.
Here’s what’s making us happy this week.
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen·21 Aug 2026
Here’s what’s making us happy this week. Summer isn’t over—in fact, we rue the hater who throws in the beach towel before Labor Day. But there is a definite wind down spirit to late August.
Hello, Limerence
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts·21 Aug 2026
Nihao, New York I reluctantly fork out the exorbitant surcharge for my overweight luggage, whilst wondering what is the absolute limit to the weight a single plane can carry, and if the airlines...
Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher
Literary Hubby Jeff Jarvis·21 Aug 2026
Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher Exploring the Rise and Fall of Subscription Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media In the history of the invention of the...
How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life
Literary Hubby E. K. Schrader·21 Aug 2026
How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life E.K. Schrader on Ten Years Without Max Ritvo The first time I realized I was going to die I was cutting out an obituary for a project for my 6th...
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