I like to make a dumb little post of my date stamp on January 1. My friend Deb commented, “When I turned to the fresh clean rubber 2026 yesterday morning, I thought, ‘happy new date stamp year to all who celebrate!’ and thought of you.” I am very happy to be thought of for such

Walking cookies to friends on New Year’s Day. Accepting the sad fact that my nervous system can only handle one cup of coffee a day. Drinking lots of herbal tea instead. Peppermint. Trader Joe’s Harvest Blend. A cup cap accessory for my Yeti Rambler that turns it into a thermos like workers take to construction

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” the newly elected Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani said, in his invigorating inauguration speech yesterday, that praised ordinary New Yorkers. Mamdani’s speech, like his wildly successful

Behind the transformative star photographs of the 1880s lay a complex collaboration between astronomers and engravers. The post The Hidden Aesthetics of Early Astrophotography appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Rebecca Morgan Frank showcases some of this year’s most anticipated poetry titles, including collections by Bianca Stone, Diamond Forde, and more! | Lit Hub Poetry New releases from Cameron Reed, Ann Leckie, Melissa Albert, Isabel J. Kim, and more are among

Zohran Mamdan is now either the 111th or 112th mayor of the great City of New York, depending on how you count. Either way, it’s great that he’s finally taking over the Big Apple. And it’s even better than he

My former teacher and mentor Gail Mazur, whose newest collection, World on a String, was recently released from Arrowsmith Press, once told me that as poets we maintain maps in our head within which we place the poets who we

We are so lucky to have such an incredible year ahead of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative works from a mix of established and debut authors. In an unsurprising bit of kismet, a lot of these books are about the

Which books will the kids in your life fall in love with this year? We hope there will be lots, but to get your reading list started, we invited nine stellar children’s book creators—authors and illustrators of works for kids

Medieval European elites inherited the classical concept of friendship as something possible only for men. Christine de Pizan and Margery Kempe beg to differ. The post Medieval Friendships: No Girls Allowed appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

A selection of stories that chronicle our complicated notions of time. The post Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.

The viciousness of Argentina’s Dirty War resulted not only from orders from above but from ideological buy-in at the ground level. The post The Committed Officers of Argentina’s Dirty War appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Eighteen stone cairns were set up in 1926 to mark the route purportedly taken by Angus McMillan into Gunaikurnai Country in 1840. Should they remain? The post Founding Murderers vs. Founding Fathers in Australia appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Stranger Things, City of Shadows, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

Reports on the May 1960 downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union offer a case study in Cold War posturing and misdirection. The post Unforgettable Fire: The U-2 Incident  appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

One Battle After Another, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley are just a few of the movies you should be watching on HBO Max this month.

In 2025, Lit Hub published over 2,500 pieces: features, blog posts, reading lists, excerpts, essays, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Here are the ones you loved (or at least clicked on) the most. By the way: if you personally loved (or

Happy List Season, children. I hope you’ve been good. Just like every year, I have arrived to present to you the Ultimate List, otherwise known as the List of Lists—in which I read all (or at least many) of the

From essays to interviews, excerpts to blog posts, reading lists to poems, we publish a lot of good stuff at Lit Hub, if we do say so ourselves. And while we are proud of all of the pieces we’ve shared