Lit Hub Daily: December 18, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1892, The Nutcracker debuts.
- A Christmas Carol might be Charles Dickens’s best known Christmas ghost story, but it definitely isn’t his only one. Olivia Rutigliano recommends more of Dickens’s spooky Yuletide reads. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Something looms there beyond these heights. / I need a prophet’s tears / for sight.” Read “What Zarqaʾ al-Yamama Didn’t Say,” a poem by Mohamed Abdelbari (translated and introduced by Huda Fakhreddine). | Lit Hub Poetry
- From the Booker to the Pulitzer, the Nebula to the Edgar, here are the award-winning novels of 2024. | Book Marks
- Liana Finck remembers the innovative work of iconic New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg. | Lit Hub Art
- “More people are traveling than ever before, but there’s not more transformational travel than ever before.” Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to legendary travel writer Rick Steves. | The New York Times Magazine
- The latest BookTok sensation is… Dostoevsky. | The Guardian
- Kotryna Garanasvili considers the broad and underacknowledged world of “translation adjacent” activities. | Words Without Borders
- Marisol LeBrón considers two books on the intersection of colonialism and prisons. | Public Books
- Ayşegül Savaş discusses research, transitions, and the writing process. | Full Stop
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