Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Everything you didn’t think you needed to know about how squids have sex. | Lit Hub Nature
Darcey Steinke on chronic pain, loneliness, and the 100th anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill.” | Lit Hub Craft
Krys Malcolm Belc meditates on cooking, family, and queer domesticity. | Lit Hub Food
This week in literary history, Dante Alighieri is named prior of Florence shortly before being exiled from the city for life. | Lit Hub History
Dominic Erdozainn explores the problem with American patriotism. | Lit Hub Politics
“I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you.” How working in advertising helped Lu Chekowski write a memoir. | Lit Hub Craft
Madeleine Schwartz recommends books about the United States (by non-American authors). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Stacey Yu recommends books by Mary Gaitskill, Colette, Marlen Haushofer, and more about cats and their owners. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“I kept looking for the flaws, the pieces that I had predetermined were broken and realized that I had never actually seen myself.” Phill Branch navigates Blackness through film and print. | Lit Hub Memoir
“What happened in Santiago, the matter that began my great downfall, the rupture in my previously hallowed existence, was this: I played the concert of my lifetime.” Read from Jane Healey’s new novel, Crescendo.| Lit Hub Fiction
