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September 4, 2025

TODAY: In 1809, Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Slowacki is born.

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Devoney Looser explores the enduring appeal of Elizabeth Bennet, Austen’s most beloved heroine. | Lit Hub Criticism

Jack Sheehan on fighting horror and finding hope as slaughter in Gaza continues. | Lit Hub Politics

This is your guide to the 49 pieces of essential literary film and television coming to screens this fall! | Lit Hub Film

“I want to know him better before it’s too late, to learn what’s in his head, what drives him.” Helen Garner on going all in for her grandson’s footy club. | Lit Hub Sports

I can’t let go of a ten-year-old literary grudge... Am I the asshole? And other questions answered in this week’s Am I the Literary Asshole? | Lit Hub

Eliana Ramage recommends literature about ambitious women by Benedict Nguyễn, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Danzy Senna and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Ginny Tapley Takemori considers the realities of war and translating Grave of the Fireflies for a new era. | Lit Hub On Translation

Can siblings make a literary dream team? Laura and Colin Dickerman discuss working together as writer and editor. | Lit Hub In Conversation

“A monument to the vapidity and vulgarity of the culture that incubated it.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

Kevin Young’s TBR features Nicholas Boggs, Mavis Gallant, Jack Kerouac and more! | Lit Hub Criticism

“Wide-eyed, we stared at our friend as she stood between two worlds.” Read from Nino Haratischwili’s novel The Lack of Light, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin. | Lit Hub Fiction

DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025

September is National Translation Month, a time to celebrate the art of translation and the role of translators in connecting cultures and making international literature accessible. On Thursday, September 18, 2025, Center for the Art of Translation will present its 6th annual capstone event, the Day of Translation, at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY.

“The border opens, and people from the West bend down from the tailgates of their trucks and give presents to their poor sisters and brothers from the East.” Jenny Erpenbeck on a Berlin Christmas, circa 1990. | The Paris Review

Viola Zhou explores her mother’s relationship with her AI doctor, Dr. DeepSeek. | Rest of World

“The framers never intended for the Constitution to be preserved, like a butterfly, under glass.” Ed Simon and Jill Lepore talk about the Constitution. | Pittsburgh Review of Books

Emily Zarevich investigates the origins of the Macbeth witches. | JSTOR Daily

“In Cavalier Perspective, Breton explores this anti-rationalism as inherently accessible and corrosive to systems of logic that demand conformity and deride creativity.” On newly translated writing by André Breton. | Hyperallergic

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs discusses prison abolition after Katrina: “We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions.” | n+1

NEW FROM NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST RABIH ALAMEDDINE

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible is a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother.

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