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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1896, Joan Lindsay is born. 

• “What might have been just an engaging children’s story becomes also a set of hints, allusions, and glimpses, the early experiences of learning about a larger world.” Making sense of J.R.R. Tol­kien’s expansive world. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Ed Simon defends the symbolic (and René Magritte’s Le Coeur du Monde). | Lit Hub Art
• Peter Kayafas considers Lee Friedlander’s unique perspective on many American Christmases. | Lit Hub Photography
• Did you know there are competitions for tap water? And obviously, someone needs to judge them. | The Walrus
• What Cold War nuclear testing did to the caribou. | JSTOR Daily
• “Yet at every step of the research process, this Enlightenment ideal — a totalizing understanding of the Earth, an organized system for making sense of its changes — is closely trailed by politics in various forms.” Paul N. Edwards on technology, climate change, and counterculture. | Dirt
• Daniel Kolitz and Tony Tulathimutte on loserdom, taboo, and the worst guys on the internet. | Interview

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1929, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is banned in the United States. 

• Because you asked for it (you ask for it every year). These are the most scathing book reviews of 2025. | Book Marks
• Why Virginia Woolf thought Katharine Mansfield stank like a “civet cat taken to streetwalking.” | Lit Hub Biography
• Why read 58 best books lists when you can just read one? This is the ultimate best books list for 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Tarpley Hitt chronicles the intense international legal battle over Barbie dolls (and their imitators). | Lit Hub History
• “In a frequently mangled quote, media theorist Marshall McLuhan observed that humans shape our tools, which then come to shape us.” A look into the future of slopified media. | The Nation
• Oluremi C. Onabanjo explores the role of photobooks in the development of African photography. | Aperture
• Kevin Ruane considers Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, a scathing portrait of American foreign policy, 70 years on. | Jacobin
• “No matter how great our collective amnesia, these mass shootings add up.” Xochitl Gonzalez on the attack at Brown and how America continually fails its children. | The Atlantic
• Ed Simon traces the visual history of No Kings, from a toppled statue of George III to the current proliferation of protest imagery. | Hyperallergic
• What Isaac Asimov’s rules for ethical AI couldn’t understand about the future. | The MIT Press Reader
• Sonja Drimmer and Christopher J. Nygren offers four “small acts of friction” for resisting AI in education. | Public Books
• “Magazines were a testing ground for new work, for writers to flex their muscles and pay their rent between novels.” Greta Rainbow on the state of book publishing at the end of magazines. | Dirt
• Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor–Elect Ghazala Hashmi on why “reading is a subversive act.” | Shenandoah
• Escapism, podcasts, and risk-aversion: Emma Loffhagen considers what’s behind the nonfiction dip.  | The Guardian
• Ellis Simani investigates how nonprofits navigate the language of DEI in the era of Trump. | ProPublica
• “It is essential for scholars to find, pay attention to, closely read, historicize, and theorize the conditions of embodiment in all their material messiness, difficulties, atypicalities, affordances, and glories.” Christian Lewis on the advent of raised-print texts in the Victorian era. | Public Books
• What happened when Dan Fox began speaking Welsh, the language of his family: “another gentle process of discovery.” | The Yale Review
• Emily Foister dives into Anya Berger’s archives: “She saw herself participating in the creative work of her lovers, and those in her networks, as both an inspiration and as an interlocutor, shaping the work from the inside.” | The Paris Review

Also on Lit Hub:

On sadness and anger in the face of the West’s crimes in Gaza • Sandy Ernest Allen reckons with Harry Potter as a trans person • The best reviewed fiction of 2025 • How a father and daughter can break a cycle of violence • Nobody knows where the caribou have gone • The reality of climate change and the limits of Western storytelling • Language, place, and creative writing in Sarajevo • The best reviewed nonfiction books of 2025 • On the stories of love and sex addicts • Can bibliotherapy heal the world? • Theodore Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics • How New York State almost banned Ulysses •  How Jane Austen’s family nurtured her writing • Exploring David Thoreau’s Kalendar • The Lit Hub stories our staff loved in 2025 • Am I the asshole for calling out romance novelists who don’t care about romance? • Mixing personal memories with public histories • The 10 best book reviews of 2025 • Authoritarianism, war, and literature in Europe • Our most popular stories from 2025 • Boarding house poetics and communal living • Health, identity, and brain injury • Essential books on the Vietnam War’s most important photographs • Co-founding MTV and  hitchhiking the Sahara • Kat Abughazaleh on loving sci-fi and fan fiction

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1870, Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, is born.  

• We’re proud of everything we publish, but we all have our favorites. These are the Lit Hub stories our staff loved in 2025. | Lit Hub
• Sandy Ernest Allen reckons with Harry Potter as a trans person: “I’d often look at that Harry Potter blockade and wonder why I was clinging to them, especially if their author thought so little of my humanity.” | Lit Hub Memoir
• Am I the asshole for calling out romance novelists who don’t actually care about romance? Kristen Arnett answers this and other questions about your literary drama. | Lit Hub Advice
• Terese Svoboda on mixing personal memories with public histories (and what her mother-in-law has to do with Hitler). | Lit Hub History
• “Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process.” The 10 best book reviews of 2025. | Book Marks
• “I understand the nature of war—writing about war, living through war—and why war is an indelible, horrible experience, yet absolutely central in human history.” On the history and future of authoritarianism, war, and literature in Europe. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Tammi Morton-Kelly rediscovers Rea Irvin’s classic comic strip, The Smythes. | The Comics Journal
• Escapism, podcasts, and risk-aversion: Emma Loffhagen considers what’s behind the nonfiction dip.  | The Guardian
• Kyle Chayka looks back on the year in AI slop. | The New Yorker
• On Władysław Reymont, “chronicler of the profane” and Poland’s often overlooked Nobel laureate. | Asymptote
• Ellis Simani investigates how nonprofits navigate the language of DEI in the era of Trump. | ProPublica

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1784, Samuel Johnson dies. 

• These are the best book covers of 2025 (as chosen by some of the industry’s best cover designers). | Lit Hub Design
• Why To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s unacknowledged plague novel. | Lit Hub Health
• What happens when Gen Z encounters Catullus’s filthiest poem? “Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.” | Lit Hub Craft
• Adrian McKinty considers the “epistemological uncertainty” of Thomas Pynchon’s detective fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Has “working-class writing” gone the way of the dodo bird? Jake Trelease on the need for literature beyond the bourgeoisie. | Tribune
• “I think poetry is a positive outcome of friendship. I’d call that a fact.” Eileen Myles reflects on writing their previously unpublished poem, “Bird Watching.” | The Paris Review
• How community libraries make archival and literary resources accessible as attacks on knowledge escalate. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “[A]gain and again, his psychic conflicts were displaced onto the lives of his patients.” Rachel Aviv explores Oliver Sacks’ approach to telling his patients’ stories—and his own. | The New Yorker
• “All my crystals have lined up and saluted to the authority of pressure like battalions of toy soldiers standing in perfect rows and columns, obeying the spreadsheet. War footing Robin Myers gravitates toward the idea of “translator as eternal guest.” | Words Without Borders
• Book designer Alison Forner discusses the process of creating the cover for American Canto. | Fast Company
• “The heart swells just thinking about a genuine literary ‘PHENOMENON’ occurring in a country whose days of mass literacy may be behind it.” Daniel Yadin on romantasy at the end of the world. | The Drift
• Jay Caspian Kang meditates on what the internet has done to reading. | The New Yorker
• “Balle treats her speculative framework like a petri dish wherein she can experiment with new lines of inquiry in clipped, plain language.” Conor Truax considers Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume. | The Baffler
• Why science fiction literature needs to let readers into the lab. | Public Books
• Nissa Parmar examines the political power of poetry. | JSTOR Daily
• Horst Bredekamp explores the artistic lineage that informed Frank Gehry’s sketches. | The MIT Press Reader
• “Every time I have to write about Rome for some publication abroad, I feel like I’m either selling out parts of the city or snitching on friends to foreign secret services.” Francesco Pacifico on the scourge of American tourists. | The Dial
• Larissa Diakiw on what humans can learn about ourselves from bats. | Hazlitt

Also on Lit Hub:

On A.A. Milne’s romance novels • Celebrating African visual storytelling • How Germany’s turbulent 20th century impacted a grandmother’s life • Is Brendan Mac Evilly a better novelist or ceramist • Read “Le Chien,” a poem by Billy Collins • Read two poems from Devon Walker-Figueroa’s new collection • Why Joan Didion hated the police • 29 old books we read and loved in 2025 • Colm Tóibín looks on the process behind A Long Winter • Colette’s many feline muses • On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle • Authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire • Why novelists should gamble on themselves • Marion Winik reflects on her 1994 memoir, First Comes Love • Disordered eating, therapy culture, and the expectations of motherhood • Nadia Davids spends time with the ghosts of Apartheid • The similarities between writing trash bashing • Did Jane Austen invent the wellness guy? • 5 book reviews you need to read this week • Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson • Zefyr Lisowski’s TBR • The poetry and resistance of Nadia Anjuman • Peter Mishler interviews poet Maurice Riordan • Black liberation, the abolition of slavery, and the myth of progress • Haruka Iwasaki recommends holiday romance novels • Writers share the most surprising parts of their creative routines • How Sam Shepard became New York’s star counterculture playwright

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In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals

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The tournament will kick off on December 4 and will run until December 18, with it being based at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

There will be a full slate of 15 WSOP gold bracelet events taking place throughout. This year’s WSOP Paradise will also feature an expanded partnership with Triton Poker, the high-stakes tournament operator.

Last year, two gold bracelet events were curated by Triton, and this number is to increase to six in 2025. The WSOP bracelets will go to the winners of Event #2 Triton PLO, Event #3 Triton PLO Main Event, Event #5 Triton NLH Invitational, Event #8 Triton NLH 7-Handed, Event #9 Triton NLH Main Event, and Event #10 Triton NLH 8-Handed.

“With the WSOP Paradise at Atlantis Paradise Island tournament schedule now set, the countdown to The Bahamas IS ON! This year’s line-up delivers an unbeatable mix of world-class events, record-breaking guarantees, and unforgettable poker moments in one of the most iconic destinations on the planet.

“From seasoned pros to newcomers, players from around the globe will find their place in paradise, and their shot at history,” said Joe Brunini, Chief Gaming & Customer Development Officer, Atlantis Paradise Island, in a press release.

What are the key events of WSOP Paradise 2025?

According to the newly released schedule, the key events will be on these dates, with the buy-in listed too:

GGPoker will also once again serve as the exclusive international satellite partner, aiming to send more than 1,000 players to the Super Main Event. The WSOP Express and Road to Paradise qualifier tournaments are currently underway in the brand’s lobby.

It’s thought that over 500 players will qualify for the Circuit Championship through WSOP Circuit gold ring events, which run from July 1 all the way through to December 2. ClubGG plans to send more than 400 players to the same event.

For those who are watching at home, it has been confirmed that WSOP Paradise 2025 will have a live stream, which can be viewed on the WSOP YouTube channel. CBS Sports Network television coverage has been planned for distribution in early 2026, too.

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1904, the first of Virginia Woolf’s writings to be accepted for publication, “Haworth, November 1904,” an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, is published anonymously in a women’s supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian.

• Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free. | Lit Hub Criticism
• “He has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking.” These are the most scathing book reviews of 2024. | Book Marks
• We know you don’t want to read every best books of 2024 list, so Emily Temple read them all for you. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• From the Booker to the Pulitzer, the Nebula to the Edgar, here are the award-winning novels of 2024. | Book Marks
• “She was a contrarian yet utterly original, warm yet suffered no fools, wrote children’s books but could curse up a storm…” Kevin Young remembers Nikki Giovanni. | The New Yorker
• “At every significant change in the medium, poets seemed to be the ones doing the first experiments. Poets were doing R&D.” Zoë Hitzig and Ryan Ruby in conversation. | The Baffler
• Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili considers the “failure of both imagination and of historical evidence, to only center Haiti in crisis.” | Adi Magazine
• “Through the barrier of a screen, the lines between the strange and the familiar blur: We come to know the endless suffering before us by heart, yet we have no real understanding of what it means to endure it.” On Isabella Hammad’s Recognizing the Stranger. | The Nation
• Joel Suarez considers Studs Terkel’s Working at fifty. | Jacobin
• Ange Mlinko considers what we can learn from prose written by poets. | New York Review of Books
• Kotryna Garanasvili considers the broad and underacknowledged world of “translation adjacent” activities. | Words Without Borders
• Marisol LeBrón considers two books on the intersection of colonialism and prisons. | Public Books
• Ayşegül Savaş discusses research, transitions, and the writing process. | Full Stop
• “It turns out that, upon reflection, the Almighty’s views are pretty straightforwardly those of the average North American conservative.” Yeah, Jordan Peterson’s views of the Bible are about what you’d expect. | Jacobin 
• “A solitude of being one with others and just that—being, being so deeply inside oneself that there is no outside of oneself; there is no tension between you and the world.” Roger Reeves reflects on images of Black men resting. | Emergence Magazine
• Troll-man-to-lover: When 17th century Swedish courts investigated supernatural love. | Atlas Obscura
• In days of yore, the publishing holiday parties went hard. | The Cut
• Maya Vinokour close-reads Luigi Mangione’s self-help library. | The Nation
• Hannah Bonner considers literary motherhood and Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Nightbitch. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub:

Which literary stories made the biggest impact this year? • Palestinian stories and voices trace a long, painful year in Gaza • Gender, agency and freedom on both sides of the photographer’s lens • Just in time for those holiday family gatherings, here’s a less meta way to approach difficult conversations • Betsy Fagin talks to Peter Mishler • Read “Winter” and “Sigh,” two poems by Roberta Iannamico • These new books are out now • Jane Ciabattari in conversation with Weike Wang • Olivia Rutigliano recommends more of Dickens’s spooky Yuletide stories • Read “What Zarqaʾ al-Yamama Didn’t Say,” a poem by Mohamed Abdelbari • On the innovative work of iconic New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg • Our editors’ favorite Lit Hub stories of 2024 • Are you the asshole if you “loathe” writers who are too online? • The most-read Lit Hub pieces of 2024 • Maris Kreizman on her favorite book to television adaptations of 2024 • Katherine J. Chen rediscovers Henry James • These are 50 of 2024’s best nonfiction books •  Our 10 favorite book to screen adaptations from 2024 • The case for recognizing the brain rot of times gone by • Chris Knapp talks to Andrew Martin about creating realistic relationships •  Abdelrahman ElGendy on Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise 

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