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- Anyone but the people: Rebecca Solnit on the party of Trump’s attacks on democracy. | Lit Hub
- “We made people stop fighting each other, and start fighting for each other.” How Indigenous activist Jasilyn Charger channels anger into the fight for survival. | Lit Hub
- Tim Robinson searches for the lost history of the Conmaicne, an Irish clan that was “virtually deleted from history.” | Lit Hub
- Agitprop, Israel, and the shape of the world after WWII: On the activism of a pre-fame Marlon Brando. | Lit Hub
- We live in an age of political thugs, from Putin to Trump to Yanukovych. | Lit Hub
- Who has the right to write about Hurricane Katrina? Maggie Neil on The Yellow House and the many names of loss. | Lit Hub
- Michael Jamie-Becerra considers his coming-of-age in a discount supermarket. | Lit Hub
- New releases from Zadie Smith, Philip Pullman, Saeed Jones, and Liz Phair all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Zach Vasquez traces the cinematic lineage of the white male loner from Taxi Driver to Joker. | CrimeReads
- The literary world has been in an uproar since Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. | The Hub
- “Oh my God, the president read a thing I wrote about J.J. Redick’s penis.” Here’s what happens when the president recommends your book. | The Washington Post
- The “deep and lasting resonance” of Goodnight Moon, 75 years after it was first published. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Students at Georgia Southern University burned copies of Jennine Capó Crucet’s novel because they were angry that she discussed white privilege during a Q&A at the school. | The George-Anne
- “Can any black or brown athlete win in the context of sports in a country built upon and with their destruction in mind?” Natalie Diaz on sport, power, and identity. | Bookforum
- A fifth section of The Tale of Genji, commonly referred to as the world’s oldest-known novel, was discovered in a house in Tokyo. | The Guardian
- “This year it happened!”: One of Olga Tokarczuk’s English translators, Jennifer Croft, could feel the Polish author’s Nobel victory coming. | The Paris Review
Also on Lit Hub: Lit Hub Recommends • An excerpt from Michael Frank’s debut novel What Is Missing • Read from Jon Fosse’s newly-translated novel The Other Name: Septology I-II (trans. Damion Searls).
