Lit Hub Daily: November 20, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1906, Frank Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy premieres at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt.
- Christiana Spens on searching for her father (and the Moomins) in Helsinki. | Lit Hub Craft
- “If Baldwin found peace with his stepfather after his death, then his early writing was an exorcism of sorts.” Douglas Field on James Baldwin and complex relationships with paternal figures. | Lit Hub Biography
- Jessie Van Eerden considers notions of home and self through biblical stories, desire, and a painting by Velázquez. | Lit Hub Art
- Kate Golembiewski explores the long history of Moon lore: “It is not surprising, then, that since ancient times, humans have wondered if the cycle of the Moon might exert similar power over our minds.” | Lit Hub History
- “Bioluminescence, like most all distinctive traits, evolved to attract mates, defend against predators, and aid in the hunt for food.” On the power and beauty of an illuminating oceanic phenomenon. | Lit Hub Nature
- “And I stood where I always stood, I answered as I always used to answer.” Read from Ingvild Rishøi’s novel Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Sometimes it feels to me, too, like India is the entire world. Not just because it is the world I grew up in, intermittently, but also because it’s a place whose future affects everyone…” On Quarterlife by Devika Rege and the state of Indian fiction after Narendra Modi. | The Baffler
- Tasha Sandoval on a literary canon that honors elders: “Through intergenerational dialogue and deft, emotive narration, the new abuelita canon gives a sense of interiority and agency to our abuelita’s lives.” | Public Books
- Brahim El Guabli explores indigenous Amazigh literary tradition. | Words Without Borders
- Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson discuss what parenting and abolitionist organizing have in common. | The Nation
- Joshua Rothman examines the relationship between the language of technology and the language of politics. | The New Yorker
- Are these the most influential cookbooks of the past century? | T Magazine
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