Lit Hub Daily: March 27, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: March 27, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - Langston Hughes, translator? Ricardo Wilson II explores the writer’s experience in Mexico and his struggle to bring Mexican and Cuban writers to American audiences. | Lit Hub Biography - “Alongside noting each season’s nod to diversity, there has been a steady critique of what the series glosses over, particularly the oppressive, often violent hierarchies, masked by fashion and sentiment.” Patricia Matthew considers the fourth season of Bridgerton. | Lit Hub TV - Yann Martel explains why writers need to “follow the chemistry.” | Lit Hub Craft - Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch, Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn, and Chrisopher Clark’s A Scandal in Königsberg all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. | Book Marks - Adrian McKinty on when science killed God (and Richard Holmes’s The Boundless Deep): “If Darwin killed God and Kelvin killed any point to doing anything where does that leave the artist or indeed the ordinary human being?” | Lit Hub Criticism - Poet Maggie Smith takes you on a tour of her writing space. | Lit Hub Craft - “To Baba, the lush voices and machine-backed rhythm were a bitter impwa dish, which clung to the tongue even after several glasses of water.” Read from Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s new novel, The Shipikisha Club. | Lit Hub Fiction - Ariella Garmaise digs into the controversy surrounding Nan Goldin’s Stendhal Syndrome. | The Walrus - Revisiting the story of the Toulagoo Nine, a group of Black college students arrested for protesting the segregation of public spaces (by reading at the library). | Smithsonian Magazine - “I wanted to do something with my hands, something real, tangible, and material. Pleasure and mastery.” Peter Wayne Moe on finding a small way to resist AI. | Longreads - “There’s no conflict in Death Comes for the Archbishop, except for the grinding of tectonic plates, the breaking of treaties, the murder of nations.” Patricia Lockwood on Willa Cather. | London Review of Books - Riley MacLeod cooks the joke vegetarian food from Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For. | Aftermath - The internet’s free encyclopedia has banned AI-generated article content: “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies.” | 404 Media Article continues after advertisement