Lit Hub Daily: May 28, 2021

• “Beach books” contain multitudes… Here are the 75 nonfiction books you should read this summer, according to us. | Lit Hub

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• “To many writers, Ramallah is an ideal, a dream, a promise.” Maya Abu Al-Hayat on the thriving artistic life of the Palestinian city. | Lit Hub

• INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: Meghan O’Rourke shares everything you need to know about The Yale Review, the oldest literary journal in the US. | Lit Hub

• Amanda M. Fairbanks on the mysterious sinking of the Wind Blown—which went down off the coast of Montauk in 1984 with four young men aboard—and the shipwreck hunters still searching for it. | Lit Hub

• “I didn’t quite know then just how far some Christians would go to uphold their fiction that my Black skin wasn’t equal to their white skin.” Monica West calls for a racial reckoning in the church. | Lit Hub Religion

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• Dwyer Murphy with all the international thrillers to stream this Memorial Day weekend. | CrimeReads

• Women Write Now: Imbolo Mbue, Patricia Lockwood, and Anna Wiener take the Kimpton Questionnaire. | Lit Hub

• New titles by Rachel Cusk, Joan Silber, Alison Bechdel, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks

• INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: Wave Books takes on a new audiovisual approach to poetry. | Lit Hub

• Tune in virtually to the Hay-on-Wye Festival, starting with debut novelist Catherine Menon in conversation with Colm Tóibín. | The Virtual Book Channel

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• In his bid for the US Senate, J.D. Vance has embraced the idea of “politics as total war.” Unity! | The New Republic

• “Was that—could that be a hyphen? Sitting unabashedly between the words New and York?” Pardis Mahdavi looks at the politics of the hyphen, circa 1945. | The Paris Review

• Madeline Vosch considers strabismus, Polyphemus, and what it means to call a thing monstrous. | The Offing

• “I felt like we weren’t given the room to be funny, to be jerks, to be messy—to be normal.” Randall Park and Adrian Tomine discuss Asian American storytelling in Hollywood, and bringing Shortcomings to the screen. | Vanity Fair

• Ta-Nehisi Coates on his half-decade run in the Marvel universe. | Polygon

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• Why we need fiction: Read this interview with Keiichiro Hirano, translated from Japanese to English by Eli K.P. William. | PEN America

• Lisa Taddeo talks about anxiety, navigating success, and her new literary thriller. | Los Angeles Times

Also on Lit Hub: Chad Bryant on literary life in turn-of-the-century Prague • Catherine Wolff considers the ways we seek out the divine • Read from Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam’s newly translated novel, Arcadia (trans. Ruth Diver)