Lit Hub Daily: May 12, 2023

• From Goethe to Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Banks considers the moral and political failure to “meet mothers with the full force of our intellects.” | Lit Hub History

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• “He’s like the imp version of Leonardo DiCaprio.” Jonathan Russell Clark asks why Hollywood keeps returning to Peter Pan. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Terry McDonell has thoughts on writing about your mother. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “What’s ‘envy,’ Mother?” Read from Mona Awad’s forthcoming novel, Rouge, on the intersection of beauty, power, and motherhood. | Lit Hub Excerpts

• Where’s the UK equivalent of Robert Caro? Sam Leith looks at the difference in nonfiction between the US and UK. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Rosalynn Tyo picks a bone with a romance trope: the (beautiful, struggling) single mom. | Lit Hub

• Tom Hanks’ The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Retrospective, and Héctor Tobar’s Our Migrant Souls all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• On the oldest and most boring form of trutherism: doubting Shakespeare’s identity. | Slate

• Are medical mysteries the new true crime? | New Republic

• You want to sell books? Simply confuse the hell out of Taylor Swift fans. | Washington Post

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• Arinze Ifeakandu has won the Dylan Thomas Prize. | The Hub

• “More men, including baseball star Bryce Harper, are picking up the traditionally female-targeted love stories.” Yes, dudes are reading more romance novels these days. | Wall Street Journal

• An AI named “Claude” can apparently read a book in under a minute and will now be insufferably tracking his reading and tweeting about it (probably). | Engadget

Also on Lit Hub: Laura Valenza reviews The Five Devils, a cinematic Gothic novel for the contemporary age • The book that made John Wray a better writer • Read from Susie Luo’s debut novel, Paper Names