Lit Hub Daily: April 25, 2025

TODAY: In 1566, feminist French Renaissance writer Louise Labé, besides known arsenic La Belle Cordière, dies.  

• Ginny Hogan connected why we emotion to spot the beauty and disappointment of toxic female friendships connected nan page and nan screen. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Hannah Zeavin connected class, race, gender and how caregivers disrupt nan fabrication of nan atomic family. | Lit Hub History
• “In nan end, we are each cursed, cursed by oil’s ease, seduced by its possibilities.” Don Gillmor connected the effect of our addiction to oil. | Lit Hub Politics
• Joan Didion’s Notes to John, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Exit Zero, and Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life all characteristic among the best reviewed books of nan week. | Book Marks
• “She was acquainted pinch ‘my kind’—a young Black man striving to beryllium wrong nan framework of societal and familial expectations.” Doug Jones connected community arsenic a queer Black writer. | Lit Hub Craft
• Casey Johnston explores nan “uncomfortable reality” of penning astir nan body. | Lit Hub Craft
• “I’ve moved to this metropolis to hold for nan extremity of nan world. The conditions couldn’t beryllium better.” Read from Antonio Muñoz Molina’s caller Your Steps connected nan Stairs, translated by Curtis Bauer. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Was this Montana woman nan first enfant terrible of American letters? Hunter Dukes connected “the chaotic female from Butte.” | Public Domain Review
• “Even astatine nan constituent of annihilation, Lem allows for nan anticipation of revelation.” Marat Grinberg considers Stanisław Lem arsenic a Jewish writer. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• José Olivarez and Jon Sands retrieve Aziza Barnes: “No 1 other sounds for illustration them.” | Poetry
• Heather O’Donnell connected the bequest of Belle da Costa Greene, 1 of history’s astir iconic librarians. | New York Review of Books
• “At immoderate constituent successful our acquaintance, he greeted maine by kissing maine afloat connected nan lips, and from past on, this was our ritual, a smooch.” Jesse Barron connected Gary Indiana and his last novel. | Granta
• Why Sophie Gilbert wants you to stop fetishizing Y2K popular culture. | The Cut

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