Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2022

• “In my most cynical moments, I wonder if the return to literary moralism isn’t an evolutionary tactic of publishing’s extant power structures.” A. Natasha Joukovsky against the moral-medicine view of fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• A wrinkle in time: On the waning years of Edward Hopper, and how aging impacts an artist’s oeuvre. | Lit Hub Art

• “While the classical industry may have been designed with snobs in mind, classical music was not.” Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch invites non-snobs into the classical music world. | Lit Hub Music

• Robert Pinsky reflects on poetry and social class, and outgrowing his “dissenting first impression” of Robert Lowell. | Lit Hub Poetry

• On the price of resisting Nazi propaganda in Germany. | Lit Hub History

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• “Across cultures and time, poets have had a long-standing wrestle with religion.” Philip Metres considers transcendence and immanence in the work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa. | Lit Hub Religion

• What a young Charles Darwin saw upon anchoring in Tahiti. | Lit Hub History

• Peter Orner on murder and tragedy in Fall River, Massachusetts, the town his family loved. | Lit Hub

• Katy Waldman on Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs, Nathan Goldman on Leonard Cohen’s A Ballet of Lepers, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• On the rare magic of books set in and around the theatrical world. | CrimeReads

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• From Bernardine Evaristo, a guide to reading your way through London. | The New York Times

• Maria Benevento meets with a banned book club in Liberty, Kansas. | KCUR

• What are the best books for teaching children about the climate crisis? | TIME

• “What is our responsibility as a species among all those species? How to keep fighting to keep one’s humanity awake?” An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham. | The Rumpus

• Read Martin Lewis’ guide for libraries wanting to offer themselves as “warm banks.” | The Guardian

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• “In these masochistic novels, desire is a sort of black hole, which by its nature, must always suck and always swallow.” Noor Qasim on Annie Ernaux and contemporary stories of desire. | The Drift

• Howard Rambsy II and Kenton Rambsy dig into how The New York Times covers Black writers. | Public Books

Also on Lit Hub: A.M. Homes on being “a very American writer” (for better or worse) • Mary L. Dudziak on resisting the brutality of state numbers • Read from Igiaba Scego’s newly translated novel, The Color Line (tr. John Cullen and Gregory Conti)