Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2023

• “Languages have a way of cleaving you in half.” Manuel Betancourt on navigating queerness in English and Spanish. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Ann Napolitano on reaching for the connection of Little Women: “The March sisters, from the first page of Alcott’s novel to the last, show us that we are not enough, and not whole, when we are on our own.” | Lit Hub

• Unpacking the legacy of Shakespeare’s First Folio on its 400th birthday. | Lit Hub

• How Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” speaks to bioethics in the medical community. | Lit Hub Health

• “Five people turned up to listen to me. None of them had read my books, and it was clear that none of them had the slightest intention of doing so.” John Banville on the casual ignominy of the book tour. | Esquire

• Priests and worshippers in Ethiopia are working to recreate ancient religious manuscripts by hand. | Al Jazeera

• Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. | The Hub

• “Wary of being saddled with such a damning label, young women like me were therefore disinclined to have any boundaries whatsoever.” Lucinda Rosenfield on a college affair. | The New Yorker

• Laura Miller considers Ann Rule’s role in shaping true crime. | Slate

• “The more ‘queer’ has drifted away from its referents, the more it has become an essentializing category.” Ben Miller considers queer history. | The Baffler

Also on Lit Hub: Mitchell Untch on grief and letting his subconscious direct his poems • New poetry by Mark Hyatt • Read from Bernardo Zannoni’s newly translated collection, My Stupid Intentions (tr. Alex Andriesse)