Lit Hub Daily: March 4, 2022

• VOICES FROM UKRAINE: Read from Serhiy Zhadan’s The Orphanage, a novel of occupied Ukraine · Masha Gessen on Vladimir Putin’s ignorance of Ukraine · Olha Poliukhovych and Askold Melnyczuk on Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine · Andrew Keen on Putin’s propaganda and the week in Ukrainian resistance. | Lit Hub Ukraine

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• Oscar contenders, Pachinko, a Susan Orlean/Nic Cage cult classic, and more of the Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in March. | Lit Hub Film and TV

• “Thirty thousand linemen in bucket trucks / Streaming into your distressed environs.” On Rodrigo Toscano and the art of work. | Lit Hub Poetry

• How the Great War and American universities contributed to the crass commercialism of healthcare. | Lit Hub History

• Maël Renouard considers the internet’s relentless deluge of images, which “devour each other, replace each other pitilessly, as if to outmatch the boundlessness of our desire.” | Lit Hub

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• Yoko Tawada’s Scattered All Over the Earth, Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19, and Harvey Fierstein’s I Was Better Last Night all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Nora Shaalan looks at the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, in which she “rehashes the same questions and problems that recur across her extensive oeuvre.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• “I saw similarities between the displacement of my Coast Salish ancestors, and the displacement of me.” Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe discusses writing and definitions of home. | The Seattle Times

• Jane Goodall and Margaret Atwood discuss climate justice, feminism, and finding hope in terrifying times. | Harper’s Bazaar

• “Is this essay my retribution or forgiveness? Maybe it was never up to me to forgive him, maybe that’s up to “God,” whatever that word means.” Wen Stephenson on Dostoevsky, faith, and his parents. | The Baffler

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• Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson raised $15.4 million on Kickstarter to self-publish his books. | New York Times

• Dallas’ Interabang Books and Lan Samantha Chang are teaming up for a collective reading of The Brothers Karamozov to help make sense of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. | The Dallas Morning News

• Ruth Weiner, publisher of Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, discusses what makes a great children’s book. | Words Without Borders

Also on Lit Hub: Having trouble with novel structure? Look at it like a mixtape • Meg Walters on the Woolfian spirit of The Worst Person in the World • Read an excerpt of Clancy Martin’s Maybe Tomorrow, published in the literary annual NOON