Lit Hub Daily: November 14, 2023

• 40 books to understand Palestine, from Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun to Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “We believe that peace is possible and that it starts with choosing to protect civilians now.” A statement of solidarity with Gaza from more than 100 literary translators. | Lit Hub Politics

• Kali Fajardo-Anstine invites you into the Southwest lands of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop. | Lit Hub Criticism

• 24 exciting new books published today. | The Hub

• This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Jesse David Fox, Lexi Freiman, Lindsay Hunter, E. J. Koh, and Ed Park. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• A gator is never just a gator: Rebecca Renner explores alligator poaching in the heart of the Everglades. | Lit Hub Nature

• Warren Bronson on the sacredness of prison libraries: “It’s the exploration, the rubbing elbows with those who are fellow seekers of a different stripe.” | Lit Hub

• Joanne McNeil on classism, Patricia Highsmith, and what minimum-wage jobs taught her about writing novels. | Lit Hub

• Required reading: Guernica has collected the work about Palestine it has published since 2010. | Guernica

• “There is no next book.” On the book club that’s been reading Finnegan’s Wake for 28 years. | The Guardian

• An ode to Jezebel, from the site’s former editor Kate Dries. | LA Times

• “We really feel death every second. We smell death everywhere.” Testimonies from Gaza. | n+1

• “‘Kairos’ is her most direct and sustained depiction of the historical rift she herself lived through and thus her most explicitly personal novel.” Ross Benjamin on Jenny Erpenbeck’s ambivalent nostalgia. | The Point

• Nine books to read if you love The Crown. | New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: The false promise of climate fiction • On building a personal library of bad behavior • Read from Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, Happy