Lit Hub Daily: October 9, 2026

TODAY: In 1898, Tawfiq al-Hakim is born. Morgan Entrekin attends the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize dinner at the Frankfurt Book Fair. | Lit Hub On Translation Demetris Papadimitropoulos considers the complex relationships between queer people and their families through reading Families We Keep and Families We Lose. | Lit Hub Criticism Deesha Philyaw explores the power of raising the stakes in fiction. | Lit Hub Craft Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordi