Lit Hub Daily: April 12, 2022

TODAY: In 1857, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is published, causing women across Europe to reconsider their marriages.  

• “When a Ukrainian text articulates a vision of the future, it inevitably pushes back against the past, against the violence that sought—and seeks—its erasure.” Sonya Bilocerkowyz on Zelensky’s Servant of the People. | Lit Hub Ukraine

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• “The state of ‘nature,’ like the state of the global climate, can no longer be appreciated from a distance, and its literature can no longer be confined to a single shelf.” Michelle Nijhuis reframes a genre. | Lit Hub Nature

• How Indigenous societies resisted the binary thinking of colonialism and preserved their blended gender identities. | Lit Hub History

• THE ANNOTATED NIGHTSTAND: Melissa Chadburn reveals what she’s reading now and next, from Beloved to Stolen Life. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Mary Laura Philpott talks to Maggie Smith about facing the unexpected with humor. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• Escape from the Love Canal: How the toxic waters of Niagara Falls poisoned a community. | Lit Hub History

• This month’s 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Negesti Kaudo, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Zachary Lazar, Rachel Mannheimer, and Dawn Winter. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• Jeremy Scott looks at seven great rural crime films. | CrimeReads

• Parul Sehgal discusses the pleasure of language, the emotional arc of criticism, and em-dash abuse. | The Oxonian Review

• Was Aldous Huxley… a bad art friend? | Lapham’s Quarterly

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• “These books’ implicit promise to their readers, who are mostly women, is that they can, by reading them, understand what it is to be women from women.” Alexandra Tanner on novels about “generations of women.” | Gawker

• Do you recognize yourself in this taxonomy of bookstore browsers? | Slate

• Breaking down some of the best new books on economics. | Financial Times

• Jennisen Lucas, president of the American Association of School Librarians, speaks with Anthony Brooks about the dangers of school book bans. | WBUR

• “This silent epidemic is triggered by social policies that fail to protect individual bodies.” Meghan O’Rourke on chronic illness, writing, and our health care system. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Also on Lit Hub: Why the color red carries so much weight in film and literature • The high stakes of textbooks • Read from Gayl Jones’s latest collection, Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho

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