Lit Hub Daily: December 9, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1608, John Milton is born.
- Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill on editing and translating Hannah Arendt’s long-lost poems. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Like a thief, gossip moves swiftly, undeterred by rivers or valleys, indifferent to borders and the hotheads who patrol them.” Merve Emre on Texas: The Great Theft and the literary nature of gossip. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Aliens, magic, scares, and more: These are our favorite sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books from 2024. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Lydia Reeder on Boston’s first hospital for women and the ways female doctors fought against 19th-century medical misogyny. | Lit Hub History
- “I came to Mezquite searching for Visitación Salazar, the woman who would bury my children and teach me to bury those of others.” Read from Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel No Place to Bury the Dead, translated by Elizabeth Bryer. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Would you like to see Karl Ove Knausgaard’s cat (and books)? | The Washington Post
- “To my early-aughts eyes, Orbach’s argument just felt more like weight-loss propaganda sneakily trussed up as feminist liberation.” Natalia Mehlman Petrzela revisits Susie Orbach’s 1978 book Fat Is a Feminist Issue. | The New Republic
- How San Francisco’s free carpool system can help us understand James C Scott. | Aeon
- “Manufacturing a digestible version of a thinker as demanding as Simone Weil is, on first glance, far from an enviable task.” Jack Hanson on why we should keep Simone Weil’s legacy weird. | The Drift
- Ned Blackhawk considers the best books on Native American history published (so far) in the 21st century. | The New Yorker
- Alexander Leggatt on the Shakespearean possibility of a second chance. | New York Review of Books
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