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

• Devoney Looser explores the enduring appeal of Elizabeth Bennet, Austen’s most beloved heroine. | Lit Hub Criticism
• This is your guide to the 49 pieces of essential literary film and television coming to screens this fall! | Lit Hub Film
• Jack Sheehan on fighting horror and finding hope as slaughter in Gaza continues. | Lit Hub Politics
• 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
• “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
• 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
• “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