Lit Hub Daily: January 4, 2019

• A reading list to address your mounting dread: six essential texts by women on climate change. | Lit Hub
• When privilege confronts its past: Angela Morales on the Mexican-American dream. | Lit Hub
• “The evil of banality does not deserve my feelings.” Ece Temelkuran talks to Leland de la Durantaye. | Lit Hub
• This week, the Lit Hub staff recommends Call Them by Their True Names, an oldie for the late antiquity stans, and Olivia Colman (forever). | Lit Hub
• On Otherppl, Brad Listi talks to Morris Collins about the temptations of certainty and the lives of expats. | Lit Hub
• Sex robots, Henry VIII, a tribe of whalers, and more all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• Sarah Weinman looks at the life and work of linguist David Maurer, who spent his life studying criminal argot, thieves cant, and other slang of the underworld. | CrimeReads
• Edgar Hilsenrath, a German-Jewish novelist who wrote satirical autobiographical novels about his experience of Nazi persecution, has died at 92. | The New York Times
• “From story to story, one feels a sustained longing for independence.” Revisiting Alice Munro’s debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, 50 years after its publication. | The Atlantic
• “Warner Brothers hired Faulkner in July of 1942 at $300 per week. His first gig was the Charles de Gaulle story.” On Faulkner’s forgotten de Gaulle biopic. | JSTOR
• The Lolita conundrum: On enjoying fiction (potentially) inspired by horrific events. | The New Inquiry
• Italian design companies have created an illustrated digital companion to Dante’s Inferno. | Open Culture
• “Never constant, sometimes beautiful, always brimming with the potential for grotesquerie and grandeur alike.” Gabrielle Bellot on James Baldwin’s Harlem. | NYRB

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