Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1924, Franz Kafka dies.
- What if we kissed…in space? These are new sci-fi and fantasy books to start your summer. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “As horrible as this has been for all of us in America, what we are encountering is not the worst thing happening to professors right now.” Steven W. Thrasher on the recent crackdowns against academic dissent, at home and in Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics
- Is the lonely reader really lonely? Emily Hodgson Anderson considers the connective power of reading through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. | Lit Hub Criticism
- David Woo recommends new poetry by Saba Keramati, Justin Rovillos Monson, Robert Pinsky and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “What these developments have in common is accountability—or, more precisely, the lack thereof.” Stephen Vladeck on the demoralizing ethics of the Supreme Court (and the urgent need for change). | Lit Hub Politics
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New children’s books are here, and they’re about cursed rats, doll dreams, and Latin American folktales. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - “I had worked at the company for fifteen years when the job became translucent.” Read Hilary Leichter’s story “Double Shift” from the new issue of Conjunction. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Feisal G. Mohamed looks at the history of Palestinian solidarity and the power of encampment as a form of protest. | The Yale Review
- “While some of the winners and finalists are undoubtedly phenomenal works, the lists from which they are drawn inevitably include between their lines the potential for alternative literary histories.” Viet Thanh Nguyen looks back at the first National Book Awards. | The Washington Post
- Can AI really mimic human intelligence? According to Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell, not yet. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- On reading the complex and controversial writer Sui Sin Far through the lens of sentimental fiction. | JSTOR Daily
- “It’s hard to see this wildly disproportionate response as anything other than an attempt to chill speech on this issue.” Columbia students report that the university has changed its disciplinary rules in time for student protesters to be disciplined. | The Intercept
- Public libraries are already fighting battles against book bans. Now, they might need to worry about ransomware attacks, too. | GeekWire
