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Lit Hub Daily

November 17, 2025

TODAY: In 1992, Audre Lorde dies.

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What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moments! | Lit Hub

On its 40th anniversary, Jeanette Winterson remembers the creative process behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. | Lit Hub Craft

Was Barbara Pym a stalker? Evangeline Riddiford Graham considers the celebrated novelist’s unrequited loves. | Lit Hub Biography

John Hendrix considers post-apocalyptic narratives and the graphic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. | Lit Hub Criticism

Madeline Lane-McKinley explores children’s liberation through children’s literature. | Lit Hub Criticism

Volker Ullrich learns lessons on fascism from Weimar Germany: “Although the Nazis won only six seats in the regional parliament, they were still in a key position.” | Lit Hub History

“A person can get used to anything. I got used to being alone all the time.” Jean Chen Ho on dislocation and longing in Upstate New York. | Lit Hub Memoir

“These past few days I been thankin an’ thankin bout a late summer night I tried a long time to fergit.” Read from Leif Høghaug’s debut novel The Calf, translated by David M. Smith. | Lit Hub Fiction

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Alice Wong, the writer and much loved disability activist, has died at 51. | The New York Times.

Jordan Kisner considers Electra and the thrills and limits of screaming into the void. | The New York Times Magazine

Saree Makdisi on the human demands of the genocide after the genocide: “We cannot let our politicians get away with the idea that it is time for business as usual. It falls to us, as ordinary people of good will, to continue protesting, striking, boycotting.” | n+1

Selma Dabbagh looks at Soraya Antonius’s The Lord as a portrait of a lost Palestine. | The Paris Review

“Robert Kagan, who had once been a reliable neoconservative defender of a muscular American empire, transformed himself into democracy’s Cassandra.” Richard A. Greenwald considers politics in the age of humiliation. | The Baffler

Why book clubs are elite social spaces. | The Walrus

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