Lit Hub Daily: April 21, 2017

TODAY: In 1930, Brazilian poet, playwright, and novelist Hilda Hilst is born. 

• Happy Birthday, Shakespeare! Performing Hamlet in a sandstorm for Syrian refugees · Meet the American who battled for 44 years to rebuild the Globe Theater · The night I spent in Hamlet’s castle. | Literary Hub
• Ben Greenman on mourning Prince, and the way we paid tribute. | Literary Hub
• Brian Francis Slattery finds his literary home in the Weird, from Octavia Butler to Kelly Link. | Literary Hub
• Four ways of looking at climate change: squid eggs, traffic patterns, desert trees, and a big blue marble. | Literary Hub
• Empty, adolescent, and distinctly inferior: A 1937 review of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. | Book Marks
• More than just an indictment of patriarchy, The Handmaid’s Tale is also “a brilliantly condensed, primal, unforgettable image of the particular way in which women often oppress other women.” | Catapult
• The Man Booker International Prize 2017 shortlist has been announced. | The Man Booker Prizes
• On the curious case of American Affairs, a “Trump-inspired intellectual magazine.” | The Nation
• “Our strength is stillness and the ability to stay open and vulnerable.” Sarah Gerard and Lidia Yuknavitch in conversation. | Electric Literature
• Jia Tolentino on her “nauseating read” of Bill O’Reilly’s one and only novel, Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder. | The New Yorker
• Colson Whitehead and Margaret Atwood have earned spots on this year’s TIME 100. | TIME
• “The genre, when done right, can have great literary merit—that is to say, it can be well written and get at the human condition, with its savageness and its grace.” David Grann recommends his 5 favorite true crime novels. | Five Books

Also on Lit Hub: Meryl Streep and more read their favorite poems at Lincoln Center · Magic, Dick, book-burning! And other news from literary TV and film · From Lance Olsen’s new novel, Dreamlives of Debris.

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