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Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2026
TODAY: In 1957, Italo Calvinoâs letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party is published in LâUnita.Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon...
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Itâs Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (Itâs Impossible Not To)
For a coterie of dandyish readers during the Victorian Mauve Nineties, The Yellow Book provided something novelâbook cover designs. When the literary quarterly released...
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What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron AcemoÄlu review â how to fix the system
In 2009, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel published an essay with the portentous title The Education of a Libertarian, in which he announced: âI no...
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Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics
Joan is eighty-five years old, and I fell a little in love with her on Thanksgiving.Article continues after advertisement
She was sitting on our couch...
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Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home
During my tempestuous teenage years, I was attracted to the work of Sylvia Plath. I voraciously read her poems, as well as The Bell Jar and...
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Jason Arday claimed he was paid â1.4 millionâ by publisher for memoir
Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and embellishment, claimed he was paid â1.4 millionâ for his forthcoming memoir detailing his extraordinary...
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How to Navigate Amazonâs E-Reader Monopoly
For a Professional Reader Like Maris Kreizman Itâs Hard to Avoid the âWorldâs Largest Booksellerâ
I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after...
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Thirst by John Robins audiobook review â an ex-drinkerâs darkly funny journey
A memoir chronicling the comic and broadcaster John Robinsâs life in alcohol and his subsequent path to sobriety, Thirst is structured around the drinks...
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Lit Hub Daily: August 6, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1920, John Graves is born.Why later in life is maybe the perfect time to read...
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Sky City by Jacqueline Crooks review â an ambitious, lyrical portrait of trauma
The world of Sky City never quite settles beneath your feet. The action of Jacqueline Crooksâs second novel unfolds in a recognisable 1990s London,...
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How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte
The cultivation of sweet-tasting foodstuffs has shaped Caribbean history for five hundred years. And in the late 1800s, after slaveryâs end in the British...