Lit Hub Daily: May 12, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1925, Amy Lowell dies.
- Tracy Slater examines the parallels between Trump’s anti-trans policies and the persecution of Japanese Americans during World War II. | Lit Hub History
- Sonya Bilocerkowycz on the impact of generational trauma in the midst of Russia’s imperialist onslaught against Ukraine. | Lit Hub Memoir
- David Renton shares lessons on anti-fascism, courtesy of Sinclair Lewis and Philip Roth. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How writing for The Wonder Years taught Mark B. Perry to write a novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- “That was the first time I discovered that a place—and a person—could be lost forever in a frantic instant.” Nova Ren Suma explores the allure of writing lost places. | Lit Hub Craft
- Mark Lynas on what would happen in the first few hours of nuclear war (and how to prevent nuclear war in the first place). | Lit Hub Politics
- “I knew my mother’s story and what was at stake would resonate with others. But how?” Priscilla Gilman talks to Jill Bialosky about her new memoir, The End is the Beginning. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “One day, I asked my father what was the most distant city he’d ever visited. He simply said: ‘Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.’ And nothing more.” Read from Anthony Passeron’s novel Sleeping Children, translated by Frank Wynne. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The killing of the NEA feels like the last little bit of the end of American culture, and it’s the last little bit of voices of true resistance. All that’s left is content created for an algorithm that a corporation wrote.” Kaitlyn Greenidge on the tragedy of Trump’s gutting of the NEA. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Jeremiah David reads—and lives—Camping on Low or No Dollars (aka The Guide). | The Paris Review
- “How does Trump perpetuate the faulty logic of IQ tests and tracking? By suggesting that people with disabilities do not belong in the workforce.” Pepper Stetler traces the eugenicist roots of IQ testing. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- David Kaczynski reflects on the letters he sent his brother, Ted Kaczynski, after turning him in to the FBI. | The New York Times
- Tanvi Misra details the disastrous collaborations between ICE and local authorities. | The Baffler
- Nikhil Mahant on what we can learn about human language by imagining how aliens might communicate. | Aeon
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