Lit Hub Daily: July 22, 2024

TODAY: In 1916, George Bernard Shaw publishes “Shall Roger Casement Hang?” in the Manchester Guardian.

“Is freedom of speech all that much to hold onto if one has no forum in which to put that speech forward?” The cofounder of Guernica on free speech and the retraction of the Israel-Gaza essay. | Lit Hub Politics
“The book opens with Lauren’s diary entry dated Saturday, the 20th of July 2024.” Roz Dineen on Parable of the Sower, the book everyone should read now. | Lit Hub Criticism
On the myth of American “heroification” and adapting James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me. | Lit Hub Politics
“This Ayodhya was not the small, dusty town in north-central India that lay at the heart of the ‘Hindu-Muslim problem.’” On the deadly manifestations of religious hatred in India. | Lit Hub Memoir
Mira Ptacin on transforming one’s inner critic: “Each time the harsh voice emerges and I become aware of it, I put on my heart-shaped, rose-colored glasses.” | Lit Hub Craft
“When a Greek fisherman caught a woman’s body in his net—a marble statue, around five feet tall, missing two arms—I was working for a museum in Los Angeles on the other side of the world.” Read from C. Michelle Lindley’s debut novel, The Nude. | Lit Hub Fiction

It turns out that Charles Dickens had the secret to TikTok virality all along. | The New York Times
“Hatred with heritage”: Richard Slotkin on the clash of American mythologies. | The Yale Review
Amy Estes on what would happen if Ernest Hemingway visited Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club. | McSweeney’s
Emily Van Duyne talks knowledge production and outing yourself as a Sylvia Plath reader. | Chicago Review of Books
Liza Donnelly on The New Yorker’s women cartoonists. | Print Mag
Why re-read books? “Books are miraculous to me because unlike other pleasures involving tangible places, people and things, books can be re-experienced precisely the same way over and over again.” | Juvenescence

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