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Lit Hub Daily

May 14, 2026

TODAY: In 2006, poet Stanley Kunitz dies.

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Lessons in living in the Anthropocene (from the world’s most pessimistic climate writer). | Lit Hub Criticism

Dear Hollywood: please stop hot-washing your literary adaptations. | Lit Hub

On Anthony the Turk and Grietje, the larger-than-life, 17th-century Manhattan couple who would absolutely make for great reality TV. | Lit Hub History

Stine An’s TBR features work by Lee Jenny, Cynthia Cruz, Henry Goldkamp, and others. | Lit Hub Criticism

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores

“It’s a character study of a woman becoming corrupted by the only kind of power she considers herself able to wield.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

Robert K. Brigham remembers searching for his dad, both abroad and right in front of him. | Lit Hub Memoir

Fazlur Rahman recommends medical memoirs by John Bayley, Danielle Ofri, Ayaz Virji, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“I arrived at the Academy on a Tuesday in early September, one of the last weeks that the ferry would be operating for the season.” Read from Avigayl Sharp’s debut novel, Offseason. | Lit Hub Fiction

10 WRITERS WHO TRANSLATED KAFKA

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times.

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SHARP, DARKLY FUNNY COMIC FICTION

A scalding, darkly humorous debut following an enmeshed mother-daughter duo, both best friends and enemies, and the plastic surgery addiction that warps their lives into a perilous spiral.

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Hanif Abdurraqib explores the pleasures of loving a hapless team (in his case, the Timberwolves). | The New Yorker

Corinne Leong considers Rachel Khong’s My Dear You: Stories and the future of Asian American literature. | The Baffler

Becca Rothfeld examines the banal horror and “performance of normality” in the works of Marlen Haushofer. | London Review of Books

Chris Mautner talks to the organizers of the Brooklyn Expo of Comics, a hopeful successor to Comic Arts Brooklyn. | The Comics Journal

When AI agents are overworked, they turn to… Marxism? | Wired

“Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make individuality seem specious, interconnection and collectivity the peeled-back reality.” Whitney Barlow Robles meditates on life, coral, and extinction. | Orion