Lit Hub Daily: February 26, 2021

• “Like so many women novelists of previous centuries, Yezierska’s canonical status is a phenomenon of the recent past.” Catherine Rottenberg on the overdue revival of Anzia Yezierska. | Lit Hub
• Fashion isn’t frivolous: Francesca Granata recommends books central to our understanding of femininity, masculinity, and race. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “This is the work of a writer unconstrained by expectations, or anything remotely resembling marketing imperatives.” Simon Leser on translating a doggedly anonymous author who publishes under the pseudonym Joseph Andras. | Lit Hub
• Feast your eyes on the best book covers of the month, featuring half-faces, dripping clouds, and a militia of rainbows. | Lit Hub
• Angela Buck recommends nine books of seductive nightmares, in which “the moment of doom is terrifying, exhilarating, and weirdly comforting.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• In the aftermath of a murder in Muncie, a community banded together—and true crime writers sought answers. From Keith Roysdon. | CrimeReads
• New titles by Hermione Lee, Yaniv Iczkovits, and Jennifer Ryan all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “It was the first time I ever talked about HIV without gesturing toward dark conclusions.” Danez Smith on the relationship that returned the possibility of pleasure to them. | GQ
• In praise of the “tablecloth-pulling” ending of Atonement. | Vulture
• What does the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster mean for the book industry as a whole? | The New York Times
• “In this culture, to make it as an artist is to get your own American Express campaign.” Ayad Akhtar on art and the artist residency in contemporary America. | MacDowell
• On the subversive storytelling of Dickinson. | The New Yorker
• Reading this year’s NBCC Award finalists: Marion Winik on Wayétu Moore’s The Dragons, The Giant, The Women. | Lit Hub
• “We live in a country that is obsessed with beauty, youth and success, but all that diminishes and eventually ends.” Isabel Allende discusses feminism, her new book, and the idea of home. | Los Angeles Times
• “Abolition is about a restructured world, so there is no single route there.” Mariame Kaba on grief, storytelling, and the future of abolitionist organizing. | Jewish Currents

Also on Lit Hub: Alicia Andrzejewski on the (semi-hidden) history of queer pregnancy in literature • Li Juan on why China’s Kazakh herders are giving up a life of migration • Read from Magda Carneci’s newly translated novel, Fem, translated by Sean Cotter