Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: August 24 - 28, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
August 24 - 28, 2020

TODAY: In 1992,  Mary Norton, author of The Borrowers series, dies.
TODAY: In 1992,  Mary Norton, author of The Borrowers series, dies.
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It’s that time of year: Emily Temple considers the new generation of great campus novels • Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans share views of the pandemic as immigrant writers • On William Faulkner's pride in—and quarrels with—his ancestral legacy • Exploring the gulf between history and national myth in Israel • Nick Flynn on the hard art of teaching your child where you come from • Rev. William J. Barber on the scourge of environmental racism • A poem by Dawn Lundy Martin • Clifford D. Conner looks at the many ways in which corporate money has distorted American science • Ros Anderson on the difficulty of finding a distinct human voice for her AI protagonist • In lockdown, David Farrier rediscovers drawing • The frustrated migrations of Greece, in mythology and life •  Joy Harjo on the diverse, groundbreaking world of Indigenous poetry • David Giffels considers rural addiction and the need for a multitude of voices • Was The Graduate inspired by a Brontë family scandal? • Jason Diamond on the sprawl of suburban culture • Sarah M. Broom looks back at the devastation of New Orleans East, 15 years after Hurricane Katrina • Daniel Torday on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 100 years later • Heather O’Neill on reading Virginia Woolf and looking back at her younger selves • Bask in some welcome beauty with the best book covers of August
Spring by Leila Rafei
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Octavia Butler's Kindred, Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and more rapid-fire book recs from Margaret Wilkerson Sexton • Héctor Tobar recommends five iconic literary road trips, from On the Road to 2666 • A month of literary listening: AudioFile's best audiobooks of August • Helen Macdonald talks Sherlock Holmes, Ursula Le Guin, and hating On the Road in the Book Marks Questionnaire • Ali Smith’s Summer, Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights, Daisy Johnson’s Sisters, and Carl Hiaasen’s Squeeze Me all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework
NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Five international crime novels you should read this August • Eight dark thrillers with even darker antagonists, from Michael Laurence • Elizabeth Penney on cozy mysteries featuring murder in the midst of festivities • August’s best debut crime and mystery novels • Carl Hiassen on Palm Beach, slithery characters, and Florida crime fiction • Wendy Corsi Staub asks authors how they plan to address the pandemic in their fiction • Sarah Vaughan on why motherhood is a fertile subject for crime fiction • Hannah Dennison fondly recalls the sordid world of 1970s hotels • Why The Sting is still the ultimate grifter movie, from Olivia Rutigliano • S. J. Watson on six novels that could only take place at the seashore
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