The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1856, George Bernard Shaw is born.  “The fear of ICE has pushed immigrant households in Ventura County to their deaths in methods quick and gradual.” Steven W. Thrasher on what these brutal raids sign for the long run. | Lit Hub Politics “Magic and beliefs […]

July 23, 2025, 9:06am Thirty years in the past this week, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless hit theaters and introduced us all one among cinema’s most good creations—Cher Horowitz. Primarily based on Emma Wodehouse, of Jane Austen’s Emma, Cher was as vibrant as she was delulu. To not be stopped by dangerous grades, disinterested conquests, or the […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1374, Italian poet and scholar Petrarch dies.  Issa Quincy explains the pleasant pressure of writing a novel with out planning (and even figuring out something). | Lit Hub Craft The Protection Division desires to ban tons of of books. Listed here are the weirdest titles. […]

July 17, 2025, 2:45pm Kylie Cheung’s forthcoming e-book Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans is a searing investigation into the intersecting buildings that management the lives of ladies and pregnant individuals. In her introduction, Cheung writes that the e-book “is my greatest try and contextualize the deeper impacts of abortion legal guidelines, notably on endemic […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1904, Anton Chekhov dies.  “As I started to embrace and have a good time Romani tradition and historical past as an grownup, I got here to appreciate that an inkling of that ancestral touring life-style could have survived inside me.” Madeline Potter on letting the […]

July 11, 2025, 12:50pm At a ceremony on Thursday night time, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars was awarded the second annual Inside Literary Prize, the first-ever US-based literary award to be judged by presently incarcerated folks. Readers from 15 prisons throughout 6 states and territories chosen Adjei-Brenyah’s novel from a shortlist of 4. “There isn’t […]

July 8, 2025, 2:25pm Amongst the entire horrible and regressive selections and shadow docket orders the Supreme Courtroom spewed forth this time period, there was a uncommon, small win for libraries and faculties. The story bought a little bit buried, however the Supreme Courtroom dominated 6-3 to uphold the Common Service Fund, a bundle of […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1929, Scotland Yard seizes 13 work of female and male nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a London gallery on grounds of indecency.  Clear room in your bookshelves! Listed below are the 249 books we’re anticipating popping out within the second half of 2025. | […]

July 3, 2025, 12:16pm Pleased July 4th eve! Even should you’re not feeling so rah-rah on the American experiment as of late, there’s nonetheless quite a bit to have fun tomorrow. Along with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the fourth can be when New York State abolished slavery in 1827 and when the […]

TODAY: In 1984, Lillian Hellman dies.  Rebecca Morgan Frank highlights seven new poetry collections publishing in July, together with work from James Cagney, Marissa Davis, and Cassandra Whitaker. | Lit Hub Studying Lists Article continues after commercial Natalie Zutter recommends one of the best speculative summer time reads popping out in July, that includes defracted […]