📖 📖 Lichtenberg 世界文学日报 - 2026年09月06日

In 1951 the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that “in Sausalito people live on anything that floats.” Those midcentury houseboat dwellers were the antecedents of Marin County’s “anchor-outs,” people who live on the anchorage in Richardson Bay and therefore, as Piper French writes in her review of Joe Kloc’s Lost at Sea in our September 24 […]

Ratko Mladić’s death last week at eighty-three in The Hague—where he was serving a life sentence for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide as the commander of the Bosnian Serb forces during the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995—is a reminder that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was the […]

Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.

Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.

Madeleine de Sinéty sloughed off her aristocratic upbringing and spent her life capturing small-town life in Brittany and Maine.

“The terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ have the same dominant energy as ‘God’ or ‘the Devil’ in a poem.”

“Conformation shows measure the degree to which a dog ‘conforms’ to its ‘breed standard,’ a document that transmutes historical function into marketable qualities.”

"Here’s this month’s alimony, with all my love."

Onto Sperm Racing’s elegantly vulgar premise, the company has grafted a lame higher purpose intended to justify and temper the joyful stupidity of the enterprise.

Some favorite passages from the many new releases that wound up on our desks this July and August.

Marlon James tells Eric Olson about (finally!) writing a novel that draws from his life. | Lit Hub In Conversation “Terror wasn’t the only weapon the Nazis used against the American prisoners. Sometimes, they used propagandistic persuasion as well.” On

The imminent arrival of fall means I’ve been pulling out all my jackets in eager anticipation—I’m not a fan of summer, especially when it’s been nearly tropical in NYC these past few months. Arguably the best part of pulling out

As summer comes to a close, we at Lit Hub are celebrating milestones and jumping into the deep end. What’s making us happy? Climbing mountains. We’re looking autumn square in the face and saying: bring it on.  Molly Odintz, for

Suzanne Roberts offers advice (and prompts!) for writing about sex. | Lit Hub Craft How does time actually work? Jim Al-Khalili explores the flow of physics. | Lit Hub Science These Latin American novels from the 1920s chronicled an era

You might consider time to be such a fundamental feature of our existence that there really is nothing profound or meaningful that we can say about it. Maybe time, like space, simply is. Many have even argued time out of

The Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel joined for a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss the future of AI.

A case for finding wonder in familiar things

His life as a writer and farmer was informed by a simple, clarifying idea: Forget tomorrow, and work toward what is good today.

The vice president’s relationship with a conspiracy theorist is, at bottom, a political partnership, not a personal friendship.

Trump wants his ballroom and arch done while he’s in office. There’s a risk.

New research at the American Chemical Society meeting showcased a potentially edible cookie made out of — plastic!

The American chestnut once dominated the Eastern woodlands. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Andrew Newhouse, an environmental biologist, about efforts to bring these trees back from the brink of extinction.

NPR's Regina Barber and Nate Rott talk about a new way to spot archaeological fakes, how hurricanes may have influenced lizard evolution and the health effects of extreme heat.

Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.

The elephantnose fish is native to Africa and a darling of neuroscientists, for its specialized cerebellum-like brain. Scientists have mapped the neurons in a part of the brain that senses electrical signals in detail, and found that how it filters out electrical noise is more complex than they thought.

“We’ve had visitors. They just left. You’d best take a walk.” Francisco Amaro Villafuerte—Pancho to his friends—a journalist and union rep for a large publishing group in Buenos Aires, is also the author of a soon-to-be-published novel. A left-wing liberal, he’s aware of the surrounding dangers, but assumes he won’t be a target. But when […]

Soccer (née football) fans will rejoice at this all-new volume of crackling essays from the author of God Is Round. Here, Juan Villoro explores the sport through the elements that make it the world’s favorite pastime, from its ancient origins, mythic players, exhilarating matches, endemic rivalries, and the unlikely moments in which football has changed […]

Qui ziaanadi’ guelacahui Ne qui zucaadiaga’ guirasi dxi xquendarigani yuuba qui racaladxe’ guna’ stiidxayuubalu’ Gundisalú ti ma yaca gueedandá’ siadoguie’ Gubidxa guinaaze’ laanu ma zuhua’nu lu neza Paraa ndi’ chuunu pa ma binidé cabe lidxinu la? Guzaru’ bizana’ Yaga yooxho’ gucabi laanu   No será eterna la noche oscura Ni escucharé por siempre el silencio […]

“Anybody who thinks they can understand how terrible the terror has been, without understanding how beautiful the beauty has been against the grain of the terror, is wrong.” – Fred Moten   Isthmus Zapotec poet Irma Pineda’s Stolen Flower wields heart-wrenching, beautiful poetry—flowered words—against the grain of state-sponsored terror. She tends to the wounds of […]

In Stolen Flower, Irma Pineda evokes the rage and resilience of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples who have suffered state-sponsored terror with poems that grow from a tragic seed—the 2007 rape and murder of a 73-year-old Nahua woman, Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, by soldiers of the Mexican army—into a multivocal call to honor lost lives and seek justice. […]

Fetch by Colin Bramwell; Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney; The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao; Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley; The Matter by Padraig ReganFetch by Colin Bramwell (And Other Stories, £14.99)Bramwell’s translation of Fernando Pessoa’s work into Scots won him considerable recognition: it took the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize and the Highland Book Prize. Between source and target language, there is alwa...

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece has picked up the thread of her much-loved family saga series, taking the story into the 1960sElizabeth Jane Howard’s beloved family saga the Cazalet Chronicles spans three decades in the life of the upper-middle-class Cazalet family. The first four books, written in the 1990s, run from a bucolic prewar 1937 to a bruising 1947, while the fifth, 2013’s All Change, skips ahead, sitting lonely in 1956. The books are exquisite doll’s houses of feeling and object: bot...

The American author on falling in love with The Great Gatsby, being inspired by Dylan Thomas – and the memoir of a canoe trip in Texas he comes back toMy earliest reading memoryThe deaths of Old Dan and Little Ann in Wilson Rawls’s Where the Red Fern Grows were etched into my being as a first grader in Chesterfield County, Virginia.My favourite book growing upStephen King’s The Stand. I completely lost myself in the story. I don’t think I realised at the time what a rare gift it is to have th...

Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wars‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotesHillary Clinton leads tributes to Gloria Steinem: ‘Her activism was rooted in optimism’Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92.Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New Y...

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsI’ve been enjoying Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. The premise that love and art are the only things that make life worthwhile pulses beautifully through this novel and its two protagonists, spanning decades of their obsession with both, and each other. The tragedy is they are not sufficient alone for a relationship to survive to the exclusion of everything else (namely capita...

« Je ne serais pas arrivé là si… » Chaque semaine, « Le Monde » interroge une personnalité sur un moment décisif de son existence. Le dessinateur rescapé de l’attentat contre « Charlie Hebdo » évoque notamment sa rencontre décisive avec Cabu.

L’écrivain affirme clore son œuvre par cet extraordinaire geste d’écriture, sous le titre générique de « Retour au goudron », dans la perspective de sa propre fin. Repères de lecture.

« Nadja », chef-d’œuvre de l’écrivain surréaliste de 1928, lui a été inspiré par Léona Delcourt, au terme d’une relation ambivalente. La publication de ses lettres, et d’un choix de ses dessins, jette une lumière nouvelle sur leur histoire.

L’auteur a pris acte du fait qu’il est façonné par le jeu vidéo et la littérature pour écrire son ambition deuxième roman, centré sur une fratrie aux attitudes opposées face aux défis climatiques et environnementaux.

Les livres d’Annie Ernaux, qui explorent le versant intime de la condition féminine, trouvent une résonance inédite auprès des femmes. L’œuvre de la Prix Nobel de littérature retentit à travers la voix de deux comédiennes, Tess Barthélemy dans un film de sa mère Judith Godrèche et Suzanne de Baecque dans un seule-en-scène, et la lecture vibrante des lycéennes dans un documentaire de Claire Simon.

Der preisgekrönte britische Drehbuchautor Chris Chibnall („Doctor Who“) hat sich einen Herzenswunsch erfüllt und einen Roman geschrieben. Was taugt „Septembermord“?

Dieses Gedicht stammt von einem schottischen Meister der poetischen Einsicht. Es schildert die existenziellen Tiefen des Lebens in einer sachlichen Sprache, die das Alltägliche poetisiert.

Was, wenn Geschichte nicht vergeht, sondern wiederkehrt? Während der globale Judenhass das Ausmaß der Dreißigerjahre sogar übersteigt, ist der Staat Israel in eine tiefe Krise geraten. Was das auch für Juden außerhalb Israels bedeutet, versteht, wer Maxim Biller liest.

Postliberalismus heißt die Strömung, die von links bis rechts reicht und den Liberalismus für gescheitert erklärt. Ein neuer Sammelband fragt: Was steckt hinter dem politischen Modebegriff?

In Deutschland, dem Land, das ihre Eltern ermorden wollte, hat sie seit den Neunzigerjahren ihr treuestes Publikum gefunden. Heute feiert die Schriftstellerin Lily Brett achtzigsten Geburtstag.

Wamuwi Mbao • Makhosazana Xaba • Simon van Schalkwyk • Khadija Tracey Heeger • Sean Jacobs • Barbara Boswell •...

Cursed Daughters—the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite—is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers! Braithwaite is a Nigerian–British novelist...

Kevin Goddard reviews What is Owed? by Kelwyn Sole—a poet’s summing up of a life dedicated both to verse and...

Sean Jacobs reviews Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani, a rich and textured account of Ugandan and postcolonial African politics, and...

With festive Chinese music and dances, acrobatics, magic shows and martial arts performances, the Shandong Art Troupe staged an exciting show during the 27th Havana International Book Fair in the Cuban capital of Havana on Feb 2.

The Shaanxi History Museum released the first calendar of cultural relics in Shaanxi province on Tuesday, showcasing 365 pieces of exquisite collections from ancient China.

Zhang Wenxiu loved reading Zhu Xian, or Jade Dynasty, the smash-hit supernatural novel which created a stir online.

Stories from aspiring authors are now read by millions of users on the internet before being turned into movies, TV series and games.

Television viewers and those familiar with people on the autism spectrum agree: The Good Doctor is a good show.

Only one title translated from Arabic was on the longlists for the 2026 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, announced yesterday: I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated by Catherine Cobham and published by Action Books.

Egyptian author-translator Yasmine Zohdi is one of five writers shortlisted for this year's Caine Prize, which celebrates short stories by African authors.

This poem originally appeared in our 2021 SONG issue of ArabLit Quarterly.

A story from the fall of 1983 by the scribe of Basra, Muhammad Khudayyir.

This month, we have books and events coming in September 2026, as well as one we missed from the end of August.