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Today’s Featured Book Deals

In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals

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Today’s Featured Book Deals

In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1961, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe are granted a divorce in Mexico on the grounds of “incompatibility.” 

• ​​Love our annual list of the year’s best book covers? Then you’ll go wild over the best book covers of the decade. | Lit Hub Design
• How the Universal Friend, America’s first nonbinary minister, preached equality and salvation for all. | Lit Hub Religion
• Anne Margaret Castro explains why Heated Rivalry is the perfect adaptation of the romance novel’s conventions. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Howard Bryant on Black leadership, interracial heroism, and the time Jackie Robinson testified against Paul Robeson in Congress. | Lit Hub Biography
• Katy Waldman considers the recent spate of nonfiction about people pleasing. | The New Yorker
• Isabelle Appleton visits the Lesbian Herstory Archives (and dives into the history of sapphic personal ads). | The Paris Review
• Joshua Bodwell traces the history of Charles Bukowski’s publisher, Black Sparrow Press, and its founder, John Martin. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Why are Zillennial writers so obsessed with Thomas Bernhard? Oscar Dorr explains why the Austrian satirist is speaking to the algorithm. | House House Magazine
• Robin D. G. Kelley remembers Queen Mother Moore, the activist who launched the modern fight for reparations, and “understood reparations and nation-building as inseparable.” | The Yale Review
• Martin Niemoller’s “first they came for…” speech has become an activist’s battle cry. But the anti-fascist lament has a dark secret history. | The Nation
• Chances are, you haven’t read the Chinese sci-fi novel The Morning Star of Lingao, but Afra Wang argues that “the secret to understanding modern China is all right there, contained within its prophetic, often frightening pages.” | Wired
• Robin D. G. Kelley and Deborah Chasman discuss Renee Good’s murder in the context of the broader history of police violence. | Boston Review
• On Niels Fredrik Dahl and Scandinavian “reality literature.” | Asymptote
• “It’s notable that Atwood spends so long dwelling on others’ criticism of her but devotes so little space to a significant relationship with another major writer. Her friendship with Alice Munro is relegated to a single paragraph.” Linda Hall considers the unsaid in Margaret Atwood’s new memoir. | The New Republic
• “In their everyday lives, Palestinians create spaces that negate Israeli violence.” Mona El-Ghobashy considers new books by postcolonial studies scholar Haidar Eid and journalist Mohammed Omer Almoghayer. | Public Books
• Colin Warren talks to Graham Granger, the student who was arrested for eating an AI art exhibit as anti-AI performance art. | The Nation

Also on Lit Hub:

Facing your fears in fiction • How the criminal justice system decides who gets to live or die • The question of maintaining an authorial brand • Finding a gateway to the old country in Kew Gardens, Queens • Read a poem by Diamond Forde • The history of technologically assisted writing • The ethical value of combatting climate change • Lauren Schott recommends books about Ohio • The day Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed teenagers • On reinvention and the economics of Taylor Swift • Read “borrowed image,” a poem By S*an D. Henry-Smith • What sets the Sad Girl Grifter (SGG) apart from her lying, scheming peers • The best reviewed books of the week • The first step to finding an agent? Picking up a lot of books • How an enslaved gardener made the pecan a cash crop • The enduring power of Regency romance heroines • Read three poems by Molly Ledbetter • Is art the last refuge of our humanity?

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Today’s Featured Book Deals

In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1884, author, pacifist, and ACLU co-founder Roger Nash Baldwin is born.

• Ed Simon explores the history of technologically assisted writing and the long legacy of tension between human creativity and mechanical efficiency. | Lit Hub Technology
• How the Universal Friend, America’s first nonbinary minister, preached equality and salvation for all. | Lit Hub Religion
• Howard Bryant on Black leadership, interracial heroism, and the time Jackie Robinson testified against Paul Robeson in Congress. | Lit Hub Biography
• “The mistake is to see ecological preservation as matters of personal and political morality.” Why our survival matters (and the ethical value of combatting climate change). | Lit Hub Climate Change
• Lauren Schott recommends books about Ohio by Celeste Ng, Joyce Carol Oates, Tiffany Mcdaniel, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Elliot Williams chronicles December 22, 1984, the day Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed teenagers on the New York City subway. | Lit Hub History
• “Reinvention does not mean we have failed. It means we are alive, moving forward, and growing.” On reinvention and the economics of Taylor Swift. | Lit Hub Music
• “My sister, Agatha Krishna, said it started when they came, and so that’s where you could put the blame.” Read from Nina McConigley’s new novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “As schools struggle to update their curricula and classroom policies, they also confront a deeper problem: the suddenly enormous gap between what they say a degree is for and what the labor market now demands.” Jeffrey Selingo on the purpose of college in the age of AI. | New York Magazine
• Why are Zillennial writers so obsessed with Thomas Bernhard? Oscar Dorr explains why the Austrian satirist is speaking to the algorithm. | House House Magazine 
• Martin Niemoller’s “first they came for…” speech has become an activist’s battle cry. But the anti-fascist lament has a dark secret history. | The Nation
• Caitlin Doherty considers Mary Gaitskill’s “practice of extreme noticing.” | New Left Review
• Robin D. G. Kelley remembers Queen Mother Moore, the activist who launched the modern fight for reparations, and “understood reparations and nation-building as inseparable.” | The Yale Review
• Gideon Jacobs explores the horrifying absurdity of MAGA’s self-penned fan fiction: “The perennial fear, expressed by thinkers from Plato to Guy Debord to Jean Baudrillard, that politics could be corrupted by performance and transformed into pure spectacle, seemed to have been finally and fully realized.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

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In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1820, Anne Brontë is born. 

• “There were other loves in Alexander’s life, but none who meant so much to him as Hephaestion.” On Alexander the Great and Hellenistic homophobia. | Lit Hub History
• “‘Can you be a good writer and a good person?’ he muses into his Zoom camera, vaping every few seconds.” Eric Olson profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Ed Simon explores the complex relationships between writers and their day jobs. | Lit Hub Craft
• Steven W. Thrasher on Renee Good, ICE, Zohran Mamdani, and the politics of domination vs. vulnerability. | Lit Hub Politics
• Inside Trump’s war on American classrooms (and American history): “History and social studies classrooms are of particular consequence because that’s where the nation’s past is taught.” | The Baffler
• “The tech CEOs, venture capitalists, social media platforms, AI features being rammed into software and hardware alike are all abetting the president of the United States in his war on reality.” Why reality still matters. | The Verge
• Lauren Boersma Harris profiles Emily Henry and considers the making of a different kind of romance novel. | The New Yorker
• “There’s this Chekhov quote that I’m kind of living by lately. He says a work of art doesn’t have to solve a problem — it just has to formulate it correctly.” David Marchese interviews George Saunders.| The New York Times
• How Vietnamese philosopher Trần Đức Thảo conceptualized the divide between colonized and colonizers. | Aeon
• Tyler Watanamuk considers the art (and commerce) of the book stack. | Dirt
• “Neighbor, you died a poet’s death, witness and justice your final actions.” Danez Smith memorializes Renee Nicole Good, poet, mother, and neighbor. | Harper’s Bazaar
• “Like a lot of people you see in LA in various states of lucidity, John seemed to be living in an eternal present.” Michael Casper profiles the last intellectual. | n+1
• John M. Owen IV considers the lessons of the late German legal theorist Carl Schmitt for the second Trump era. | The Hedgehog Review
• Nitisha Pahwa considers the cautionary tale of Scott Adams. | Slate
• Becky Pepper-Jackson, the teen at the center of a Supreme Court case concerning the rights of trans athletes, reflects on this week’s arguments and her journey so far. | The Cut
• Historian Anouche Kunth discusses the research required to write a book about Armenia, exile, and genocide. | Public Books
• Greta Rainbow considers the longevity bro in literature. | Dirt
• Aditi Rao on the problem with Babel: “ the task remains, to extend care, humanity, solidarity, and life, to tongues—and people—outside of the trajectories inscribed by our protos; to raze the language tree that dictates our cultural debt and our naturalized nations.” | Public Books
• Amir Ahmadi Arian explains why The Blind Owl is Iran’s ultimate banned book. | The Dial

Also on Lit Hub:

Your literary film and TV fix for 2026 • The shady doctors and telemarketing schemes that defrauded thousands of women • How the first Christian rock album kickstarted the Jesus Movement • How Random House brought Capote’s In Cold Blood to bookshelves • Why Back to the Future made Sean Mortimer a misfit skateboarder • Megan Milks follows their fascination with cows to an animal sanctuary • Jane Ciabattari talks to Madeline Cash • The early days of Mao’s Cultural Revolution • Authors answer our burning questions about literary life •  An epistolary exchange between Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman • How the New York Times failed Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya •  Read “In Shadow, Who Made These Words,” a poem by Bianca Stone • Literary life in the Mississippi Delta’s Parchman Prison • Sara Levine recommends books featuring powerful aunts • Hedonism, nihilism and redemption via The Weekend • Six sad books (by funny women) • Golan Haji on art and letters in the new Syria • Is art the last refuge of our humanity? • How David Bowie both reinvented and killed the concept of a rock god • What happens if Russia wins in Ukraine? • Am I the asshole for crushing on my editor? • Daniyal Mueenuddin’s TBR • 5 book reviews you need to read this week • Myths and conquests of the Phoenicians • Jason Burke chronicles the rise of Carlos the Jackal • Asha Dore considers Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water • Kathleen Boland on getting lost (as a writing practice) •  The best reviewed books of the week • Five books to read in the early days of parenting • In praise of the boarding school novel • Read “Entropy,” a poem by Arthur Sze 

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