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Lit Hub Daily: November 2, 2026
How A Working Mother, Agnes Owens’s novel of the Scottish working class, reveals “the surrealness of everyday life.” | Lit Hub Criticism Caroline Carlson recommends great children’s books coming in November by Neil Sharpson, Avi Steinberg, Gideon Sterer and more.
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Megan Nolan on Agnes Owens’s A Working Mother, an Ode to Working Class Scotland
When my first book was published, a journalist interviewing me expressed breathless surprise that I didn’t have a college degree. It would be difficult to overstate, he later wrote in the piece, how unusual this is among novelists. This was
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10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in November
This month offers a plethora of excellent new nonfiction, including work by Hermione Lee, Orlando Swain, Sarah Haas, and more. Matt O’Hara, The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon In 1938, sickly,
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Glass Skulls, Luminosity, Soup, and Other Miracles: New Poetry to Read This November
“Movement against loss. Summer has its autumnal thoughts. / Bets made with your own body.” So begins Malgorzata Lebda’s poem “Trigger Points” in Mira Rosenthal’s translation of Mer de Glace. I keep thinking of Rosenthal’s translation notes for the collection,
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Vampiric Broodmothers, Gig-Economy Ghosts, and Medieval Abortionists: November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Where I live is currently enjoying gorgeous fall foliage, so in a leaf-peeping season frame of mind, I bring you this latest batch of books: colorful, expansive, and falling at your feet to read. Imagine your TBR stack as a
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The Ghostly and the Real: On Spirit Worlds in African Literature
Across many African literary traditions, the boundaries between the living and the dead, the seen and the unseen, are fluid rather than fixed. Ancestors, spirits, dreams, and myth are not simply fantastical devices but are unremarkable facts of lived realities,
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Tough Days and Good Laughs: 10 New Children’s Books Out This November
When my kids are having a tough day, I want nothing more than to offer them a hug and a sympathetic ear—but sometimes, comfort from a well-meaning mom is the last thing they want. They’d rather be alone for a
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This Week in Literary History: Sinclair Lewis Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On November 5, 1930, Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and for his ability to create, with wit and humor,
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The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian
To ride across the bay at this hour is to see Shep’s Island at its most beautiful. The light of the setting sun sends sparks off the water in every direction. On this particular night, there is electricity in the
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Lit Hub Weekly: October 26 – 30, 2026
From Psycho to Christine, a highway is something “altogether different when they appear in the horror genre: there they expose themselves as highways to hell.” | Lit Hub Film Fake news, far-right propaganda, exaggerated crowd sizes, a squabbling left. Sound
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Why is serial fiction having a moment?
In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years in 19 installments, The Pickwick Papers launched a craze for serialized fiction. The trend found traction across the pond. Later
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Andreas Malm has been barred from entering the UK over his solidarity with Palestine.
Author Andreas Malm has been denied entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds that his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good,” according to The Guardian and Al Jazeera. Malm was traveling
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Lit Hub Daily: October 30, 2026
How AI is dragging us towards a future that rips the body out of body horror. | Lit Hub Technology October’s best book covers aren’t spooky, but it’s scary how much we love them. | Lit Hub Design Liz DiGregorio
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If Salvador Dalí Died in 1989, Then Why Can He Still Take a Selfie With You?
When you walk into the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, Dalí himself will greet you. He appears on a life-sized screen, mustache waxed, and talks about his life and his work. He tells anecdotes. He answers questions in
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An Interrogation of Reality: On the Legacy of Blade Runner
There are films that you seem to live inside. Ninety minutes and change of what transpires on the screen singes your mind’s eye and once it happens, it stays. When the lights switch on and the credits roll, you are
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No One Really Drives Away from Anything in Horror Films
I. Taking to the Open Road Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. These words of Walt Whitman’s—from his poem “Song of
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Artificial Intelligence is a Horror Story
Imagine your body—flesh and blood, muscle and bone—cast aside as mere refuse, and your brain “immersed in a liquid of the nature of cerebro-spinal fluid” inside a cylinder. Thus goes the dark prophecy of Irish physicist John Desmond Bernal nearly
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The 10 Best Book Covers of October
Another month of books, another month of book covers. What my favorites from October lack in spookiness, they make up for in clever color stories, delicious textures, and a little bit of cheek. Here are my picks for the best
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Something Wicked This Way Comes: 10 Poems to Read This Halloween
Most poetry-lovers know classic horror poems by writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley. But there are also many eerie poems written by poets who aren’t known specifically for their gothic or horror writing. Some of