LitHub Daily: November 22, 2016

TODAY: In 1963, writer Aldous Huxley dies. 

• Reading the Louis Till file: John Edgar Wideman tries to make sense of American darkness. | Literary Hub
• Ten contemporary novels on the immigrant experience in America. | Literary Hub
• Marlon James celebrates the subversive art of the Jamaican dancehall poster. | Literary Hub
• A profile on Zadie Smith: “Novels are not about showing how people are wrong or right.” | Literary Hub
• Morgan Babst: America won’t “be fine” unless all Americans are… | Literary Hub
• Was Superman Jewish? On superheroes as anti-fascists. | Literary Hub
• On Achieving Our Country, which was published in 1998 and predicted that “the nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for.” | The New York Times
• “I don’t think any other art can get at how we move back and forth between fear and faith in the way poetry does.” An interview with Jericho Brown. | Divedapper
• On the Magunga Bookstore, an online store bridging the gap “between those people who sell books and those who write them” in Kenya. | The New Yorker
• We still got something to say to the kids: On the continued relevance of the Last Poets. | The Guardian
• “My stories often generate strong reactions by the subjects I deal with or their supporters.” Claudio Gatti apparently has no regrets about revealing the identity of Elena Ferrante. | The National Book Review
• We have to sell the house to get rid of her: A short story by Terese Svoboda. | Joyland
• Announcing the Crisis of Language Project, a “new initiative to restore the possibility of communication in our beleaguered republic” by defining everything from alt-right to post-truth. | The Point

Also on Lit Hub: In conversation with Chivvis Moore, and her life in the Arab world · Five Books Making News This Week · Read “Husbandry” from Sam Allingham’s new story collection.

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