Lit Hub Weekly: August 17 – 21, 2026

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TODAY: In 1904, Kate Chopin dies.

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Jodi Picoult gets a tattoo • Learning astir solidarity from Greg Tate’s Flyboy successful the Buttermilk • New poesy by Rebecca Solnit • This week successful literate history, Joseph Conrad becomes a British subject • The archetypal New York Times review of All the King’s Men • 50 years of Flight to Canada • The occupation with BMI • The amazingly arguable past of the parenthesis • Edwidge Danticat answers our questions astir literate beingness • Chiang-rae Lee talks to Jane Ciabattari  • Why Earl Swift hiked the Appalachian Trail twice • On publishing, careerism, and Laura McGrath’s Middlemen • Memoirs astir wild swimming • Did smartphones really termination reading? • Books astir women who rewrote beingness and art • Charles Darwin and his orchids • The sensitivity and perceptiveness of plants • Maris Kreizman is not a instrumentality of your AI speechmaking buddy • 5 publication reviews you request to work this week • This week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction • The thought of technological advancement versus what it means successful signifier • Learning astir grief from the shade of Sylvia Plath • On 10 years without Max Ritvo • The best reviewed books of the week • Why tv is the superior writer’s ally • Mark Twain and the commencement of wide media • Faraaz Mahomed talks to Damon Galgut

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