Lit Hub Daily: August 3, 2023

• “When I think of that day I can almost feel the ground shaking again under my legs.” Tamara Saade remembers the Beirut Port explosion. | Lit Hub Photography

• On the women aviators who helped win World War II. | Lit Hub History

• Victoria Gosling interrogates the legend of King Arthur: “Is Arthur why Britain, despite its history, continues to see itself as the good guy?” | Lit Hub Criticism

• What Shane McCrae is reading now and next, from Houses of Ravicka to Nothing Stays Put. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• “Tapping into the sticky stuff of humanity, each story is a gift.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Alejandro Chacoff considers how María Kodama’s fierce loyalty has shaped the legacy of her late husband, Jorge Luis Borges (tr. Jessica Sequeira). | The Dial

• “I think post-2020 in general, people are reimagining power structures and how they might contribute something in a way that they might not have thought about before.” Chelsea Hodson discusses her new press, Rose Books. | Nylon

• “My best advice is 15 minutes a day, and writers write.” How Jake Tapper writes so many books. | Esquire

• A.S. Hamrah considers the Mission: Impossible franchise. | NYRB

• Henrietta Lacks’ family has settled their lawsuit with Thermo Fisher Scientific, which used her cells in their research without consent. | AP

• “It is rare and wonderful to discover a poet disguised as a man of letters.” On Edmund Keeley’s beginnings in translation. | The Hudson Review

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of books where pets steal the show • Enacting the transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando • Read from Yu Miri’s newly translated novel, The End of August (tr. Morgan Giles)