In which Olivia Rutigliano considers The Afterparty and introduces the idea of the “millennial whodunnit.” | Lit Hub Film & TV
Beautiful art from the coldest of months: the twelve best book covers of January. | Lit Hub
“Even though I was born and raised in California I’m apparently supposed to go back to Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, and India.” Wajahat Ali reckons with loving a country that doesn’t love him back. | Lit Hub
Robin Marie MacArthur learns to give in to the radical vulnerability of the page, with a little help from her favorite writers. | Lit Hub Craft
“Writing funny is difficult both emotionally and technically, but when it’s done right, it reads easy.” Maeve Higgins on why sometimes humor is the most serious literary approach. | Lit Hub Craft
Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov discusses the threat of a Russian invasion, on Open Source with Christopher Lydon. | Lit Hub Radio
“We cannot escape our fate, and we spend all this time wondering about its arrival. What makes a good story is the how.” In conversation with Cuban novelist Marcial Gala. | Lit Hub
WATCH: América Fuentes and Gloria Estefan on Richard Blanco’s “Looking for The Gulf Motel” on PBS’s Poetry in America · Barbara Bloemink on the art career of Florine Stettheimer, on Keen On. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
New titles by John Darnielle, Brian Cox, Bernardine Evaristo, and Sequoia Nagamatsu feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
“The task of poetry is not only to ‘refuse’ or ‘resist’ death. It can also be to learn how to make one’s peace with it.” Ryan Ruby on John Ashbery’s posthumous work. | The Nation
Despite a stated commitment to banning content it determines to be hate speech, Amazon is still selling a lot of Nazi books. | The Daily Beast
Rosa Lyster considers the case of Filippo Bernardini, manuscript thief and consummate book lover. | London Review of Books
“If literature just confirms what we know, what’s the point?” Federico Perelmuter considers the idea of Latin American literature, as imagined by the US book market. | Public Books
Mikkaka Overstreet highlights children’s books that encourage critical thinking. | Book Riot
“I’d say at least half of our authors wouldn’t have agreed to be part of the project without anonymity.” Hear from the editors of a new book of stories about sex, authored anonymously. | Los Angeles TimesSophie Haigney looks at a book that catalogues obsolete objects and the significance of their disappearance. | The Baffler
