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The Issues 2024: The Fight for Climate Justice

We can’t go on like this, this week on the lit hub podcast: celebrating 20 years of n+1, mark krotov and dayna tortorici in conversation with jonny diamond, good ghosts and bad fathers: the story of a haunting, a kidnapping, and an international incident, helen vogelsong-donahue finally escapes her bogeyman, exhuming dracula’s ancestors: what vampires reveal about our latent fears, ed simon explores the history and tradition of unearthing the long-buried past in eastern europe, a glass of water, a burning boy: fady joudah on images from gaza, “is the language of his killers not part of our life is there a death we have not cheapened”, the issues 2024: reproductive rights are truly on the ballot, because every american deserves the right to choose, nick hornby: the older you get, the less time you have for bad books, “reading a bad novel when you are approaching pensionable age is like taking the time left available to you and setting it on fire.”, indie booksellers and lying liars: this week on the lit hub podcast, featuring lefty booksellers, dodgy paperbacks, and some thoughts on fact-checking, the issues 2024: on america’s uniquely deadly gun problem, how do we redress the violent legacy of the second amendment, from torpedo bras to whale tails: a brief history of women’s underwear, nina edwards explores the popular reception of thongs, bras, boy shorts and other intimate items, “america’s literary giant.” on the legacy of edgar allan poe in vietnam, nguyễn bình explores the author’s influence on vietnamese literature, andré aciman on displacement, family and the struggle to find home in the eternal city, “what i felt was the persistent, undefinable numbness that eventually overtakes you and won’t let go.”, james ivory tells his 1940s queer coming-of-age story, looking back on an adolescence spent in sunny southern california, the issues 2024: the high costs of the for-profit american healthcare system, from the opioid crisis to the cost of insulin, what the bottom line has done to our lives, five essential books for understanding native american history, cundill prize finalist kathleen duval recommends david treuer, ned blackhawk, brenda j. child and more, the issues 2024: why the labor movement is so important to americans, the second in our series of in-depth looks at the everyday issues facing americans, “ariadne sends a message,” a poem by margaret atwood, from her new book “paper boat: new and selected poems 1961-2023”, a beastly love: chronicling the transformative experience of motherhood on the page and on the screen, director marielle heller and author rachel yoder discuss their creative collaboration on "nightbitch", from beowulf to foucault: on the literary influences of cormac mccarthy, michael lynn crews investigates the inspiration behind “blood meridian,” “suttree” and other novels, the issues 2024: going deep on the problem of income inequality, introducing the first in a series of in-depth looks at the everyday issues facing americans, “those folks never had their lights turned off.” on the literary importance of highlighting the haves and the have-nots, from barroom chats with raymond carver to the aperçus of thomas piketty, douglas unger explores class consciousness in american letters, on the remarkable legacy of lewis lapham, elias altman remembers his boss' advice on writing, editing, and when a deal's a deal, the literary film & tv you need to stream in october, spooky action (and comedy, and drama) at a distance, which big fall book should you read, (a back-to-school themed flowchart), the ultimate fall 2024 reading list, 78 books the critics think you should read this season, 17 novels you need to read this fall, reading recommendations from the lit hub staff, lit hub’s most anticipated books of 2024, part two, 193 books to read in the second half of the year, here’s your 2024 literary film & tv preview, 53 shows and movies to stream and see this year, lit hub’s most anticipated books of 2024, 230 books we’re looking forward to reading this year, we need your help: support lit hub, become a member, you get editors’ personalized book recs, an ad-free reading experience, and the joan didion tote bag, rebecca solnit: we, the people, can make a better future.

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