Lit Hub Daily: January 27, 2023

TODAY: In 1940, Isaac Babel is executed by the NKVD.  

• “If this is not a revolutionary cry, what is?” Sahar Delijani on watching from a distance as women fight for freedom in Iran. | Lit Hub Politics

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• “The writer who best explained the dynamic behind Daphne’s sunnily subversive hedonism did so in 1941.” Julia Cooke considers a celebrated White Lotus character through midcentury writer Rebecca West. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Sheila Liming on the uncanniness of hanging out on reality TV. | Lit Hub 

• Paul Harding’s This Other Eden, Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures, Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards, and Colm Tóibín’s A Guest at the Feast all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks

• 25 historical crime, mystery, and horror novels to look for in 2023. | CrimeReads

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• “Although Riker has little interest in the formulaic or didactic, he considers literature a conversation above all else.” Lynn Steger Strong profiles publisher-author Martin Riker. | Los Angeles Times

• A history of the Times Literary Supplement. | The Hudson Review

• “Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices.” Anderson Tepper considers Ben Okri’s newfound resonance with American readers. | The New York Times

• The perennial allure of The Virgin Suicides, 30 years on. | The Guardian

• Seven decades after Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex, a new book by Richard V. Reeves argues that gender equality now requires a focus on male deficits. | The New Yorker

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• What happens when the Baby Boomers are gone? | The Washington Post

Also on Lit Hub: What the booksellers are reading at Left Bank Books • Peter Turchi on the power of the literary aside • Read from (and listen to) Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel, The World and All That It Holds

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