LitHub Daily: December 8, 2015

TODAY: In 1945, John Banville and Benjamin Black are born. 

• On the missing history of one of literature’s most famous murder victims: Algeria after Camus, and the writing of Kamel Daoud. | Literary Hub
• More PEN Literary Award longlists! Today, we announce the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. | Literary Hub
• On finding “a better guide to the subtleties of terrorism than proclamations of military experts or political academics” in the fiction of Don DeLillo. | Al Jazeera
• A list of the 100 best British novels, which is topped once again (and perhaps undeservingly) by Middlemarch. | BBC, The New Republic
• Maneuvering within the sprawl of nonfiction: Geoff Dyer and others on truth, invention, and the boundaries of genre. | The Guardian
• “I suppose that no two people, not vicious in themselves, ever were joined together who had a greater difficulty in understanding one another, or who had less in common.” Charles Dickens’s next-level text breakup with his wife. | Lapham’s Quarterly
• The 16 Bookends columnists share the best books they read this year. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• Canaries in the mine who cannot reveal that the emperor has no clothes: A dispatch on the state of literary criticism. | The Point
• Revisiting George Jackson’s “ferocious, disquieting” collected prison letters, Soledad Brother. | The Paris Review
• “Anorexia is an inveterate liar whose grand theme is your identity.” Against the false narratives of eating disorders.| Slate

Also on Literary Hub: The 30 must-read poetry debuts of the year · How the book business invented modern gift-giving · Five books making news this week: artists, anonymity, and rock ‘n’ roll · Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary, now out in paperback

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