Lit Hub Daily: July 22, 2025

TODAY: In 1898, Erich Maria Remarque is born.

• “The terror of ICE has pushed immigrant families in Ventura County to their deaths in ways fast and slow.” Steven W. Thrasher on what these brutal raids signal for the future. | Lit Hub Politics
• Dan Fesperman recommends novels set in imaginary (but realistic) locales by Evelyn Waugh, Margaret Atwood, Gary Shteyngart, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “Magic and ideology are both practices of belief.” On the cluttered bird’s nest of Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door. | Lit Hub Criticism
• This week’s new books include titles from Katie Yee, John Gregory Dunne, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Ivonne Lamazares discusses family, identity, and Cuba in her novel, The Tilting House. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Laura Poppick explains why glacial ice isn’t just a product of climate, but a force that shapes it. | Lit Hub Nature
• Henry Wiencek looks at the minds behind McKim, Meade and White, New York’s first great architectural firm. | Lit Hub History
• “And so the great silent words came; transmitted from one continent to the other over the ocean, the crucial message came.” Read from C. F. Ramuz’s novel Into the Sun, translated Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Ahoy! Read from Ella Sheldon’s nineteenth century seafaring diary. | JSTOR Daily
• “Yet perhaps what is more intriguing is which lines the post-apocalyptic genre have not crossed.” Isaac Yuen looks at literature and film of the post-post apocalypse. | Public Books
• “The contemporary world is so complex and protean that it is no longer possible to describe it with linear prose and squeeze it into a traditional novel’s structure.” Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin in conversation. | The Paris Review
• Maya C. Popa explores the life and career of Laura Gilpin, the poet best remembered as the author of “The Two-headed Calf.” | Poetry
• Tony Perrottet explores Hemingway’s Pamplona. | Smithsonian Magazine
• Rosie Thomas reports on the “personalities” of different chatbots (and what it all means for the humans who use them). | 404 Media

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