Lit Hub Daily: June 27, 2023

• A scandalous sartorial statement: How Oscar Wilde created a queer symbol in green carnations. | Lit Hub History

• 25 new books for your summer-reading consideration. | The Hub

• On the art thieves who steal for love. | Lit Hub Art

• “If this man, and the murders he committed, seem still to occupy a kind of mythic register, it is largely because the story has never really been told.” Mark O’Connell investigates the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur. | Lit Hub History

• David Neiwert considers the far-right eagerness for civil war, and how the rhetoric of domestic terrorists proliferates online. | Lit Hub Politics

• Kathryn Jezer-Morton makes the case for The Road as the best parenting book of all time. | New York Magazine

• “‘The way we lived back then—the stench and the filth, the animals running amok, and the people crazier than the animals—these things I had not found extraordinary until I was told, later in Paris and in England, that they were’—this describes rural France in 1952 and the Soviet Union circa 1989, both places indifferent to the needs of teenage girls, except instead of animals running amok, we had gangs of skinheads, a heroin epidemic, food shortages, mob violence, and the intrinsic knowledge that we had to be unlike the others to survive…” Anna Badkhen on her childhood friendship and the friendship at the center of Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose. | Words Without Borders

• Talking to Florida college librarians about life under DeSantis. | Slate

• “The wonderful thing about voice acting is, you’re very free to do all kinds of strange things that no one ever sees.” Rosamund Pike talks voicing The Wheel of Time audiobooks. | The Washington Post

• John Wray considers Cormac McCarthy’s inescapable influence. | LA Times

• Joy Lanzendorfer on Anaïs Nin’s decade of being married to two men. | Alta

Also on Lit Hub: Ana Menéndez on crafting a connected cast of characters • Thao Thai on the beauty of folklore • Read from Veronica Raimo’s newly translated novel, Lost on Me (tr. Leah Janeczko)