Lit Hub Daily: March 22, 2023

TODAY: In 1916, J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt marry at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, England.  

• “I think we lose so much by only knowing one language.” Min Jin Lee talks to Julia Kovalenko about language, teaching, and her novel in progress. | Lit Hub

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• What happens to your brain when you look at art? | Lit Hub Science

• Christiane Blot-Labarrère considers Marguerite Duras’s No More, a work that thrust Duras into a “region unknown.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• Healing from wellness: Pooja Lakshmin on the dangers of the self-care industrial complex. | Lit Hub Health

• Erin Sharkey reflects on her search for Black nature writing: “Maybe searching in such an archive is about looking for oneself.” | Lit Hub Nature

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• “Still Pictures makes explicit a muted moral provocation running through Malcolm’s books: that we are all essentially false Pharisees, serial violators of the Golden Rule.” Sam Adler-Bell on Janet Malcolm’s turn to memoir. | The New Republic

• Garth Greenwell in praise of filth: “The problem is that, in much of our discussion of art, we’ve made a mistake about what moral engagement is, and so what art’s role in it might be.” | The Yale Review

• Some Proud Boys tried to crash New York attorney general Letitia James’s Drag Queen Story Hour, and it did not go well for them. | The Advocate

• Robert Stinner on The White Lotus, Bad Gays, and queer villany in art. | Electric Lit

Also on Lit Hub: Multicultural London: A reading list of displacement, diaspora, and diversity • A poem by Evan Kennedy • Read from Zoe Whittall’s latest novel, The Fake

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