LitHub Daily: November 23, 2016

TODAY: In 1936, the first issue of Life magazine is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White. 

• How Forrest Gander fell in love with Neruda all over again while translating the lost poems. | Literary Hub
• Celeste Ng on giving thanks in a dark time: “How can I take the politics out of any of it, when the personal is—more than ever, now—political?” | Literary Hub
• 10 books by indigenous authors you should read. | Literary Hub
• “Write the book that scares you shitless.” John Freeman in conversation with National Book Award-winner Colson Whitehead. | Literary Hub
• My 13-year-old gay sister, at the theater with Mike Pence, suggests a politics of love. | Literary Hub
• David Lida: writing border fiction at the intersection of immigration and justice. | Literary Hub
• “The United States may be entering an era when we will need to learn from Russia’s struggle with the rhetoric of greatness, while acknowledging our tendency toward the same ideological impasse.” How reading Svetlana Alexievich might enlighten American readers now. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Balancing between form’s constraint and creative freedom: Claire Messud on Swing Time. | NYRB
• “‘White’ is a category that has afforded them an evasion from race, rather than an opportunity to confront it.” Laila Lalami on the identity politics of whiteness. | The New York Times Magazine
• On this year’s “resurrection” of poetry, which people are using to “process their thoughts amid the chaos of 2016.” | Wired
• On Ron Hansen’s erotic Catholic novel Mariette in Ecstasy, “the rare book lauded by both The Village Voice and diocesan newspapers.” | The Paris Review
• On the “coming deluge of postelection analysis, as agents, editors and publishers race to acquire books” that make sense of Trump’s victory.” | The New York Times
• The singularity is maybe not as near as thought: On the shortcomings of machine translation. | Aeon

Also on Lit Hub: The election of Donald Trump as narrative obstacle · Celebrating 50 years of Hanging Loose Press · Read from Lynne Tillman’s The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories

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