Lit Hub Daily: December 7, 2023

• ICYMI: The best Lit Hub stories from 2023, according to the us. | Lit Hub

• Moira Marquis calls out prison bans of fantasy literature: “Do carceral authorities believe that magic is real?” | Lit Hub Politics

• “It must be frightening to see that minoritized people are not only exposing past crimes committed against them but want to chart a future path.” A roundtable on teaching CRT and disputed literature today. | Lit Hub Politics

• Walter J. Scheirer on cheat codes, online deception, and the hacker group that told Congress they could take down the internet. | Lit Hub Tech

• From David Grann’s The Wager to Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger, here are the Best Reviewed Nonfiction Books of 2023. | Book Marks

• “The greatness of Holleran’s novel comes from its ambivalence; its moralism wrestles with profound sympathy and desire.” Garth Greenwell revisits Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance. | The Yale Review

• Elena Mendel recommends books about Madrid, a city that “refuses to be reduced to an ideal.” | The New York Times

• British novelist and poet (and Peaky Blinders star) Benjamin Zephaniah has died. | Yahoo

• Heven Haile talks to Ottessa Moshfegh about Anne Hathaway, adapting her own work, and avoiding easy answers. | GQ

• “The preoccupations of solitary characters populate the world even beyond side quests, existing for no purpose other than to make the game more representative of life.” Marek Makowski on Zelda and the future of stories. | Public Books

Also on Lit Hub: Jessica Moore on the dissolving margins of motherhood • Robyn Davidson on discovering her next adventure • Read from Gemini Wahhaj’s debut novel, The Children of This Madness