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Lit Hub Weekly: May 4 – 8, 2026

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1814, Mansfield Park  is published . Elizabeth Zaleski compiles a list of the Western literary canon’s greatest farts . | Lit Hub Reading Lists “As it happens, most early readers of my novel have found Dickens less sympathetic than I do.” On Charles Dickens and other bad men who are very good writers . | Lit Hub Craft Clara Hillis on the poetics of Light and Thread , Han Kang’s first nonfiction work to be published in English. | Lit Hub Criticism Xuela Zhang writes against righteousness in poetry : “I am nauseated by the certainties transnational poets are expected to keep performing.” | Lit Hub Poetry Louis Staples considers the “hustle myth” at the heart of The Devil Wears Prada . | Harper’s Bazaar “Anyone who regularly stands in front of a classroom will recognize this paradox: the best way to learn something is to teach it.” Michael Gorra reflects on his teaching life . | NYRB What happens when algorithms erase indigenous languages ?…

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