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Dusk fell in the shed, no wind, but the weather clearing. She split some logs, breathed in the scent. Hemp rope, oil, firewood and the clear evening visible through the gap in the south gable…
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How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction
In the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote speculative fiction shaped by her interests in environments…
How Accusations Against Black Academics Point to the Real End of “Woke 1.0”
This week, the British academy was rocked by a scandal that curdled into a tragedy. Jason Arday, a…
The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness
For the true beginner, there can be no end. From the moment they sit at the desk, the…
Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?
Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We…
Feeling Lonely? These 8 Books Might Help.
Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.…
Book Review: ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,’ by Jill Lepore
In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation…
Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2026
What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit…
The Maltese Version
One day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a…
On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis
Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according to the Latin tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval…