Lit Hub Daily: October 16, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1847, Jane Eyre is published.
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“Americans are never shown what it actually looks like when a US drone strike hits a wedding party, or a child is crushed by a US tank.” Noam Chomsky on the horrors America hides as it wages war. | Lit Hub Politics
Article continues after advertisement - Mosab Abu Toha’s reading list, featuring Naomi Shihab Nye, Faraj Bayrakdar, Mahmoud Darwis, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Kelsey Johnson on the often-overlooked creative side of scientific inquiry and why “at its core, science is about playing with stuff…” | Lit Hub Science
- How the safety of a public library helped Brittany Rogers embrace her queerness. | Lit Hub Libraries
- John Larison considers the importance and responsibility of writing “the other” and discusses fiction as a means of connecting across differences. | Lit Hub Craft
- Kate Hamilton recommends books about complicated desire by Deborah Levy, Han Kang, Soraya Chemaly, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- What does growing old mean when you consider looking back? Julie Sedivy asks us to reconsider our ideas about aging and memory. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Each day they were up by six-thirty.” Read from Susan Minot’s new novel, Don’t Be a Stranger. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Javier Cercas remembers a short but intense friendship with Roberto Bolaño. | The Paris Review
- “The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites.” Read from Alexei Navalny’s prison diaries. | The New Yorker
- Laurence H. Tribe considers the Comstock Act, Roe v. Wade, and what is (constitutionally) at stake in November. | New York Review of Books
- Naomi Alderman imagines the first 100 days of a second Trump presidency, seen through the eyes of the president’s massage therapist. | Esquire
- “Much of the resulting literature is exasperated, preoccupied with fragmentation and collapse, and immersed in an inward search for meaning.” Addie Leak introduces you to Jordanian literature. | Words Without Borders
- “Giving names to the nameless and, likewise, voices to the voiceless is something Han does consistently.” Yung In Chae on the significance of Han Kang’s Nobel. | The Yale Review
