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Lit Hub Daily

January 26, 2026

TODAY: In 1944, Angela Davis is born.

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“This militarized occupation still feels like a test run for something I’m not fully imagining.” Poet Dobby Gibson sends the first in a series of letters from Minnesotan writers on their experience of ICE’s assault on the state. | Lit Hub Politics

Stefan Merrill Block recounts the misery of being an unwilling homeschooler. | Lit Hub Memoir

“I was thinking about chaos as a precursor to creation—like fire, which destroys but also purges and gives way to new life.” A conversation with Isabelle Baafi. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Maya al Zaben on literature as resistance, On the Zero Line, and the urgency of preserving Gaza’s culture. | Lit Hub Criticism

On the ancient myths, legends, and folklore of Russian forests. | Lit Hub History

Tramaine Suubi recommends debut collections by stargazing poets Ally Ang, Stefanie Niu, Diane Ackerman, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“Abortion is OK, we know. But how are our kids supposed to believe us if we whisper it under our breath?” Why we shouldn’t feel bad about our abortions. | Lit Hub Memoir

Graham Robb chronicles the earliest prehistoric settlements on what is now British land. | Lit Hub History

“New Orleans shimmies: formed from a swamp into a Creole capital, it’s all sweat and longing, the sweet smell of decay and wild, wild wails.” Read from Betsy Sussler’s debut novel, Station of the Birds. | Lit Hub Fiction

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Inside Llewyn Davis is a “documentary about dating an Aries,” and more Letterboxd reviews from Jo Barchi. | Dirt

Víctor Navarro-Remesal considers the quiet reflection that “slow games” allow. | The MIT Press Reader

Read some love letters from Nicolas Giraud to Lord Byron: “My precious Master, when I came to read in your letter of your desire to return here, I almost went mad from joy.” | The Paris Review

Kelly Jensen considers the generational impact of book bans on teens and young readers. | Book Riot

LLMs can (technically) write. But they can’t write memoir. | Aeon

The bad AI-generated headlines replacing ones written by editors and journalists are, according to Google, “a feature.” We disagree. | The Verge

A PAGE-TURNING SKI TOWN MYSTERY

A band of determined journalists work to uncover the truth behind an eco-terrorist plot in Michael Bourne’s latest.

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