Lit Hub Daily: January 31, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1923, Norman Mailer is born.
- “Ambiguous signs in horror are so unnerving because it’s the stuff we encounter in our everyday lives.” Susan Barker on the power and fear in ambiguity. | Lit Hub Craft
- Ranjit Hoskote explores the interplay between written, oral and corporal expression in South Asian literature. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The federal government has never taken responsibility for the fact that…it manufactured the blight that its urban renewal programs sought to erase.” Bernadette Atuahene on the lasting impact of racist post-war housing policies. | Lit Hub History
- Not sure what to watch? Try these literary films and TV shows, coming to a streaming service near you in February. | Lit Hub Film
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Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life, Adam Ross’ Mothers and Sons, and Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine all feature among January’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- From Han Kang to Alice Franklin, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated audiobooks for February. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Nora is the center of attention in Lodgepole. She’s all anyone talks about. But inside Pinyon County Juvenile Detention Center, she’s just another kid.” Read from Kristin Koval’s novel, Penitence. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Thinking for Callard requires letting other people intrude in your private mental world to correct you. At best, it’s a kind of love.” Laura Kipnis on the philosophy of Agnes Callard. | The New Republic
- Gary Shteyngart considers the cult of the capybara. | The New Yorker
- Laura Miller explores the never-changing world of the (wildly popular) Freida McFadden thriller. | Slate
- Emily Gould on I Who Have Never Known Men, the 90s Belgian novel that has become a TikTok sensation. | The Cut
- Kali Wallace considers the eternal appeal of fantasy and sci-fi forests. | Reactor
- Andrew Liu examines why Trump’s tariffs are 40 years in the making. | n+1
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