Lit Hub Daily: August 31, 2021

• 22 novels you should read this fall, according to your friends at Lit Hub. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• What lurks beyond the black hole singularity in our galaxy, and why are we so afraid of it? | Lit Hub Science

• “In 100 years, the future, if there is one, will judge our more-than-carelessness with a cold eye.” Niall Williams and Christine Breen on the collective failure to address a dire man-made problem. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Charles Foster considers the birth of the “I”—and thus, of story—in the upper Paleolithic era. | Lit Hub Anthropology

• “Lee’s prose has an edge that cuts through cant.” A 1960 review of To Kill a Mockingbird. | Book Marks

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• Stephen Graham Jones on the evolution of the slasher film and its central figure—the final girl. | CrimeReads

• “Blackness has become a metaphor for a certain kind of societal categorization—one that I believe deserves to be given its full positive due.” Teju Cole on his recent essay collection and creative precision. | Art in America

• Brandon Taylor discusses short stories, creative choices, and realism. | The Adroit Journal

• A guide to the most important locations in the Sally Rooneyverse. | EW

• “Critical race theory is not an indoctrination; it is an education—an inquiry, contestation, and clarification about the stakes and politics of knowledge.” Brittney Cooper on the true potential of CRT. | The Cut

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• Summer Kim Lee reviews Anthony Veasna So, whose stories “live in what is missed and missing elsewhere.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Senjuti Patra recommends the best of bibliomemoirs. | Book Riot

• How will post-Brexit changes to the copyright system affect authors in the UK? | The Independent

Also on Lit Hub: Fan, stenographer, wife: on the first meeting between Anna Snitkina and Dostoyevsky • Read from Lejla Kalamujić’s newly translated novel, Call Me Esteban (tr. Jennifer Zoble)