☆☆☆ THE ISSUES: 2024 ☆☆☆
Lit Hub has been taking an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Today we look at the urgent issue of climate change, with the ten best books for understanding the fight for climate justice, the dangerous myth of human exceptionalism, and much, much more. | Lit Hub Politics
- “As Simone Weil put it: ‘Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’” Leonard Cassuto on how to take care of your reader. | Lit Hub Craft
- Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books that are perfect for reading together. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- This week on The Lit Hub Podcast, Mark Krotov, Dayna Tortorici, and Jonny Diamond celebrate 20 years of n+1. | Lit Hub Radio
- November bring new sci-fi and fantasy books from Carrie Vaughn, Tasha Suri, Haruki Murakami, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “There are, of course, literary pleasures to be had in a sociopathic protagonist.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- From cowboys to zombies, Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry collections by Albert Abonado, Kimiko Hahn, Duy Đoàn, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- These are the best audiobooks coming in November, courtesy of our friends at AudioFile Magazine. | Lit Hub Audiobooks
- “Shanghai in June is a sweltering continuum of neon and glass, its colors and textures either smudged by gloom or rendered aggressively crisp under the harsh sun.” Read from Mike Fu’s new novel, Masquerade. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The only way he could tell us about ourselves was by talking about himself, and the only way he could tell us about himself was by talking about anything but.” Dale Peck remembers Gary Indiana. | The Baffler
- Alison Haben presents a brief history of the (original) muses. | JSTOR Daily
- Ariel Lown Lewiton on finding hope in protest pins. | The New York Times Magazine
- On science and gender at an Alaskan residency. | The Paris Review
- Mira Ptacin tells the story of how a neo-Nazi was driven out of Maine. | The Atavist
- Coco Fusco examines how the American immigration system exploits vulnerable people for profit. | New York Review of Books