What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Helen Phillips, Eliza Griswold, Jane Alison, and More

August 9, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 9, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 9, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation

August 9, 2024  By Alex Zucker   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  On Translation 
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Do Dolphins Give Each Other… Names?

Arik Kershenbaum on What It Means When Dolphins Whistle To Each Other

August 9, 2024  By Arik Kershenbaum   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture  Science 
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Flynn Berry on an Underrated Tool for Character Development: Grocery Shopping

“I need to know if my character shops for convenience or comfort. If she’s buying ingredients for elaborate recipes, or frozen ready-meals.”

August 9, 2024  By Flynn Berry   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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An Indian Journalist on the Hit List: Investigating the Shocking Assassination of Gauri Lankesh

Rollo Romig on Bangalore, Spiritually Sanctioned Murder, and the Self-Delusions of India's Police Force

August 9, 2024  By Rollo Romig   Posted In  Features  History  Politics  Religion 
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“Black Infiltrators.” On the Systematic Abuse of African Refugees in Israel

Sylvain Cypel Considers the Emergence of Anti-Blackness as a Powerful Motivator in Israeli Society

August 9, 2024  By Sylvain Cypel   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

Nathan Deuel on (Trying) to Teach Travel Writing in the Middle of the UCLA Student Protests

August 9, 2024  By Nathan Deuel   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Politics  Travel 
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Great Fear on the Mountain 

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (trans. Bill Johnston)

August 9, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 8, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 8, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

August 8, 2024  By Kristen Arnett   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Edward Dolnick on Rigorous Yet Humorously Misguided Scientific Inquiry in the 17th and 18th Centuries

August 8, 2024  By Edward Dolnick   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Science 
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Remembering the Jasmine of Ramallah; Or, How to Write to the Heart of the Matter in a Broken World

Ben Ehrenreich on the Impossibility of Narrative Containment

August 8, 2024  By Ben Ehrenreich   Posted In  Features  Memoir  Politics 
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Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s

Eliza Griswold Chronicles the Emergence of a Unique Blend of Counterculture and Christianity

August 8, 2024  By Eliza Griswold   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Religion 
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“As in David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet,’ sometimes there are weird men in his closets.”

August 8, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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How Football Builds Community and Camaraderie Among Deaf Students

Thomas Fuller on High School Sports and Deaf Culture in the Shadow of COVID-19

August 8, 2024  By Thomas Fuller   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Sports 
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“Scattered Snows, to the North,” a Poem by Carl Phillips

From the Collection “Scattered Snows, to the North”

August 8, 2024  By Carl Phillips   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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Pearl

Siân Hughes

August 8, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

August 8, 2024  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Nature 
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Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott’s Essays

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

August 8, 2024  By History of Literature   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  The History of Literature 
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