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“We can no longer act as though book sales do not have ethical and moral components.” Josh Cook considers booksellers’ complicity in the resurgence of white supremacy. | Lit Hub Politics
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Bo-Young Kim recommends five sci-fi books that shaped her writing career, from mainstream lit to the speculative world of manhwa. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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The 16 best book covers of May get wet, wild, and weird. | Lit Hub
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“Since the pandemic, I have become frustrated with the linearity of time, how it speeds past us like a bullet train without stopping for us as passengers.” Cathy Park Hong remembers the summer of 2020. | Lit Hub
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Translator Mona Kareem on Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s successful mission “to save the Iraqi prose poem.” | Lit Hub Translation
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Jocelyn Zuckerman considers how the palm oil revolution is impacting India, which imports more of the product than any other country. | Lit Hub
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James Wolcott on Philip Roth, Parul Sehgal on Doireann Ni Ghriofa, J. Robert Lennon on Rachel Cusk, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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Mette Ivie Harrison on finding a balance between the angels of Mormon fiction and the murderous Mormons of popular culture. | CrimeReads
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Read a conversation between Nicholas Glastonbury and Anton Hur about how the publishing industry is failing translators. | Words Without Borders
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“I often see a story in an image, which surfaces from my subconscious with all its truth intact.” Yang Huang on her third novel, character development, and what it means to be good. | Catapult
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How do we tell trauma stories? “I have to believe telling our trauma doesn’t need to include flaying ourselves. That it’s enough to say, This happened to me.” | Midnight Breakfast
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Ed Pavlic considers Adrienne Rich’s later poems, and her radical vision of community. | Boston Review
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“It is one of the most startling accounts of infinity that I’ve ever read.” Namwali Serpell reads William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland. | The Paris Review
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“We’re definitely seeing more people who seem like they’re really willing to do the work.” Checking in with Black-owned bookstores after a year of political reckoning. | NPR
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Christine Hoxmeier recounts the process of learning to live with grief, “through stacks of books I will one day read.” | Book Riot
Also on Lit Hub: Grant Faulkner on the pressures of living in San Francisco • Chad Hanson on the myth of the “tidy forest” • Read from Nikita Lalwani’s latest novel, You People
