Lit Hub Daily: February 10, 2023

• Nikole Hannah-Jones on opposition to the 1619 Project and teaching slavery in schools: “What these bills make clear is that the fights over the 1619 Project, like most fights over history, at their essence are about power.” | Lit Hub History

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• Laline Paull on channeling a dolphin’s narrative voice—and the pain of investigating what humans are doing to the ocean. | Lit Hub Nature

• Jessica Gaitán Johannesson muses on the Birth Strike movement and (not) bringing children into a world in crisis. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• 12 books that make sense of quantum reality. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Is M. Night Shyamalan’s (more conventional) adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World… better? | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• What José Olivarez is reading now and next, from Inventing Latinos to Black Women Writers at Work. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• Andrea Long Chu considers HBO’s The Last of Us, and what it looks like for TV to adapt a video game “by taking its story and swallowing it whole.” | Vulture

• Writing is an ethical act, says Jonathan Malesic—which is one thing ChatGPT can’t teach students. | The Atlantic

• When Winnie-the-Pooh entered the public domain, horror followed. | The New York Times

• Victoria Lessard considers the legacy of “the clinch”—the iconic romance cover designs that “play into the public’s idea of the books selling sexuality as uncontrollable desire.” | Hazlitt

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• Heather O’Neill writes that getting canceled is the newest nightmare of horror films. | Catapult

• “They are itinerary and raw thought, both meditative and marginal.” Erdağ Göknar on Orhan Pamuk’s writing notebooks. | LARB

Also on Lit Hub: Helen Sword on the physicality of language • New poetry by Mahogany L. Browne • Read from Tim Blake Nelson’s debut novel, City of Blows