LitHub Daily: February 23, 2016

TODAY: In 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is born. 

• From Hawks to Fish: four poems by Helen Macdonald. | Literary Hub
• On the end of the world (and the end of genre): Laura van den Berg in conversation with Emily St. John Mandel. | Literary Hub
• Jeffery Renard Allen on searching for the lost voice of Thomas Greene Wiggins, “a blind black slave who could play anything and do anything on stage.” | BuzzFeed Books
• Stitching together “the musical language of poetry, the rigor of scholarship, and the visual and spatial movements of painting, sculpture, dance, and theater:” On the essays of Susan Howe. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• On the Dark Room Collective, a black writing group and “starry critical mass whose impact on American letters continues to expand.” | Harvard Magazine
• People hate to mistake you for a lamb and then catch the glint of teeth: On forgotten radical poet and early women’s rights advocate, Lola Ridge. | The New Republic
• More than the sum of their words and ideas: On two exhibitions celebrating the beauty of books as standalone objects. | Hyperallergic
• Idra Novey reflects on three books that took her on unexpected journeys. | Barnes & Noble Review
• Considering pain and legitimacy: On the literary denigration of writing about trauma. | Brevity
• Forty Iranian media outlets have raised $600,000 to add to the 27-year-old fatwa on Salman Rushdie. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: Kate Jenkins on the complicated legacy of Harper Lee · Books making news this week: second acts and elegies · 30 Books in 30 Days: Kate Tuttle on Karin Wieland’s Dietrich & Riefenstahl · “Acts of Love” from Patrick Dacey’s debut We’ve Already Gone This Far

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