TODAY: In 1896, Betty Smith is born.
- Wish you could forget everything that happened in 2025? Too bad! We’re here to remind you about the year’s fifty biggest literary stories. | Lit Hub
- The best reviewed fiction of 2025 includes books by Lily King, David Szalay, Gish Jen, Han Kang, and more. | Book Marks
- Jameelah Lang explores faith, family and how a father and daughter can break a cycle of violence. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “We need stories that honor our unique circumstances while simultaneously insisting on our shared peril, and our shared responsibility to muddle through this together, however we can.” A roundtable on the reality of climate change and the limits of Western storytelling. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Stacy Mattingly considers language, place, and creative writing in Sarajevo. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Pluribus costume designer Jennifer Bryan on which authors’ wardrobes she studied for the show. | Reactor
- On Michel Tournier’s novel Friday and the Robinsonade in the age of reality television. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Oluremi C. Onabanjo explores the role of photobooks in the development of African photography. | Aperture
- “In a frequently mangled quote, media theorist Marshall McLuhan observed that humans shape our tools, which then come to shape us.” A look into the future of slopified media. | The Nation
- Kevin Ruane considers Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, a scathing portrait of American foreign policy, 70 years on. | Jacobin
- Bethlehem Attfield on the legacy of poet and anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. | Asymptote
