Lit Hub Daily: April 4, 2023

• “Art can and should keep up with the times—the local times.” Isabella Hammad on the revolutionary power of Palestinian theater. | Lit Hub Art

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• 23 new books to check out this week. | The Hub

• Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on seeing his father’s face on the cover of his new memoir. | Lit Hub Design

• Daniel M. Lavery on doling advice to strangers as Dear Prudence: “An unexpected benefit of this assembly-line approach to offering advice is that one’s own judgment becomes cheap.” | Lit Hub

• Danger in the heartland: When the most powerful man in Indiana was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. | Lit Hub History

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• Chad L. Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois, Gold Star Mothers, and the symbolic battles of WWI. | Lit Hub History

• Looks like BuzzFeed is quietly publishing AI-generated articles. Noor Al-Sibai and Jon Christian consider the implications. | Futurist

• “Whether an English department is thriving or dwindling, the institutional approach generally remains the same: direct resources elsewhere.” A letter from a thriving English department on the brink. | New York Review of Books

• Why is everyone reading Norman Rush’s 1991 novel, Mating? | New York Times

• “You can’t get a good bagel in Philip Roth’s hometown.” And other revelations from the recent Philip Roth Festival. | Esquire

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• “You’re welcome here, today and all the other days.” How Ann Patchett opened the doors of her bookstore to those affected by the Covenant school shooting. | Yahoo News

Also on Lit Hub: A conversation with Charles Frazier • The universal language of trees • Read from Sophie Mackintosh’s latest novel, Cursed Bread