[New post] Lit Hub Weekly: February 28 – March 4, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "What happens to language in wartime?" Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the language of war. | Lit Hub Ukraine "You can have a life or you can do some writing, but not both at once." Margaret Atwood considers the burning questions o" New post on Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: February 28 – March 4, 2022 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1839, Charlotte Brontë declines Reverend Henry Nussey's marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her "romantic and eccentric" and not practical enough to be a clergyman's wife.    "What happens to language in wartime?" Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the language of war. | Lit Hub Ukraine "You can have a life or you can do some writing, but not both at once." Margaret Atwood considers the burning questions of the writing life. | Lit Hub Craft Kathryn Davis considers the "delectable inexplicability" of Lost and coming to terms with the unknowable. | Lit Hub TV Kathleen Stone recommends books by writers who debuted between ages 60 and 93. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Yoko Tawada's Scattered All Over the Earth, Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19, and Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks Jane Cockram recommends seven crime novels in which families are destroyed by their own secrets. | CrimeReads W.S. Merwin's recommendations—of five books, and five poems—to add to the libraries of nuclear submarines. | The Merwin Conservancy Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov discusses life in Kyiv right now, his novel Grey Bees, and his hopes for the future. | The New York Times Barbara VanDenburgh outlines books with insight into the political history of Ukraine and Russia. | USA Today Jane Goodall and Margaret Atwood discuss climate justice, feminism, and finding hope in terrifying times. | Harper's Bazaar Read a new story by Lauren Groff. | Granta "For me, Yiddish will never be easy, but I can read it, with effort. It has ceased to be a wall, barring me from history; instead, it became a door." Molly Crabapple on the joy of Yiddish books. | NYRB "Reality seemed like a cheap copy of Tokarczuk's world." Marek Makowski reads The Books of Jacob with—and against—the Riverhead Reader's Companion. | Los Angeles Review of Books "We walk all night. There is no end to the cars, no end to the people walking the other way." Elena Kostyuchenko's dispatch from Poland and Ukraine. | n+1 These Ukrainian books are available in English translation. | Book Riot "Ulysses is a symbol for all the wrongheaded and frustrating ways we talk and think about the way art is made and received and appreciated." Jessa Crispin on the creation(s) of Ulysses. | The Baffler Lydia Kiesling talks to Nicole Chung about establishing a freelance career, revision, and fleeing her home to finish a novel. | The Atlantic A new series of Dr. Seuss-inspired books will feature diverse authors and illustrators. | AP Srikantha Reddy considers the overlooked brilliance of the poet Margaret Danner, the first Black woman on Poetry's editorial staff. | Poetry From Sula to Purple Rain and family photos, Marlon James lists some of his favorite things. | Wall Street Journal Ruth Weiner, publisher of Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, discusses what makes a great children's book. | Words Without Borders Also on Lit Hub: On the Ukrainian poets who lived and died under Soviet suppression • Newly translated poetry from Ukraine • Stanislav Aseyev on life in occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, circa 2015 • Sarah Polley on grief, girlhood, and scoliosis •  Harvey Fierstein recalls his favorite late-night talk show appearances • Why Sarah Moss likes knitting and running (which are nothing like writing) • Is adaptation a feminine act? • The cerebral world of Antonio di Benedetto • Learning about human senses through the animal kingdom • Considering the linguistics of rap • Sherry Turkle on her mother's secret-keeping • Megan O'Rourke on the self-dissolving nature of chronic illness • Revisiting "bad-boy celebrity photographer" Robert Mapplethorpe • On the shaky foundations of America's Constitution • Instructions for dating a fellow writer • On Charles Dickens's elusive, unstable reputation • How the Beat generation became fashion icons • Experiencing kenosis in the poetry of Donne and Shakespeare • Why are children hungry for scientific explanations? • Former Nike director Merl Code reveals the "underground fight club" of college basketball • Ruth Brandon on Marcel Duchamp's first three great rejections • Conversations with the children of the disappeared from Argentina's "dirty war" • On Rodrigo Toscano and the poetry of labor • How basic healthcare became big business in America • Maël Renouard considers the internet's relentless deluge of images Lit Hub Daily | March 5, 2022 at 6:30 am | Tags: Lit Hub Daily | Categories: Lit Hub Daily | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-NIN Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Literary Hub. 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