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Lit Hub Weekly
February 16 - 19, 2021
TODAY: In 1924, South African novelist Alex La Guma is born.
TODAY: In 1924, South African novelist Alex La Guma is born.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Kristin Iversen profiles Patricia Lockwood • A comic strip by Pardis Parker and Andrew Hamm • Abbigail Rosewood’s recipe for cooking Thịt Kho • Adam Grant wants us to get in the habit of forming second opinions • Paisley Rekdal considers appropriation in workshop • Maria Adelmann on writing a novel and learning Danish during quarantine • Wendy Lower asks what a person should do about a photograph that documents a murder • Tracy Clark-Flory on assignment at the Adult Entertainment Expo • María José Ferrada remembers accompanying her father, a traveling salesman, around Chile • Gretel Erlich introduces Orion’s best political writing of the past 20 years • Howard Sherman on the Our Town spinoff you never heard about • Michael Patrick F. Smith finds a model in Theodore Roosevelt • Rebecca Morgan Frank on literature’s long-standing relationship with robots • Kevin Young on how the Schomburg Center became Harlem’s literary sanctuary • Yemisi Adegoke grapples with what it means to be a “returnee” to Lagos • That time Marie Curie was almost excluded from winning the Nobel Prize • Sandra Beasley embraces the medicalized body • Encountering John Muir in bear country • An interview with indie press Milkweed editions • Jeremy Atherton Lin on the literary history of gay and lesbian bars • Five books you might’ve missed in January • Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore on the writings that launched the women’s liberation movement • Janet Skeslien Charles on researching Dorothy Reeder • Will Self on what we mean by the literary canon • Michelle D. Commander unearths the lives of her formerly enslaved ancestors • Kathryn Nuernberger on the very rare case of a male witch’s execution 
The Actual True Story of Ahmed & Zarga
The Survivors by Jane Harper
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
From the archives: the first reviews of every Toni Morrison novel • White Teeth, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Letters to a Young Poet, and more rapid-fire book recs from Emily St. John Mandel • Back in 1885, critics called Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both a “tour de force” and “a piece of careless hackwork” • New titles from Patricia Lockwood, Roberto Bolaño, and Bill Gates all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Faithless in Death by JD Robb
Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
NEW ON CRIMEREADS
It’s Bourne’s universe, and we’re just living in it: Joshua Hood on continuing an iconic character • Elle Cosimano introduces a new generation of crime writers who started in YA • Molly Odintz on the many crime careers that begin during maternity leave • Dwyer Murphy wants to know why Raymond Chandler hated Strangers on a Train so intensely • Helen Cooper reads Tess of the D’urbervilles as a work of suspense • Olivia Rutigliano looks at films where villains get captured—but it’s all part of the plan • Russell Shorto on mid-century gambling and small-city mobs • Read around the world with February’s best international crime fiction • Martin Edwards on The Man Who Didn’t Fly, a most original mystery • A roundtable discussion with the women driving a new wave of espionage
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