Lit Hub Weekly: October 12 – 16, 2026
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Lit Hub Daily: October 16, 2026
What do movies like What Does That Nature Say to You, A Poet and Late Fame reveal about…
What Three Recent Films Reveal About How We View Poets and Poetry
We probably already have the definitive film about an artist for this decade, in Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s…
Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America
This deeply personal project—Rebels with a Cause—is a photographic book that captures the 1960s, a formative period of…
The Wild Robot Author Peter Brown on What Makes a Great Read-Aloud Book
The tenth anniversary edition of Peter Brown’s middle grade novel The Wild Robot is available now from Little Brown…
Trying to Move Past the Endless Stereotyping of the “Rural American”
What’s something you think national conversations get wrong about rural attitudes or rural people? This is the somewhat…
Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History
The Venetian Ghetto plays a uniquely important role in the history of segregation. By the time it was…
On Growing Up Cantonese American in Southern California
Sabrina Popo wasn’t like other grandmas. She was my grandma. She lived on her own and juggled a…
How E.L. Shen Came to Understand Her Assassinated Ancestor Through Writing About Him
When I first learned about Duanfang—my infamous, assassinated ancestor—I thought his story was a myth my family liked…
Book Review: ‘Pandemic Architecture,’ by Penny Hardy
Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across New York City in 2020. Only a fraction…