Lit Hub Daily: April 22, 2025

TODAY: In 1873, Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, is born.

• Nick Ripatrazone remembers Pope Francis, 1 of nan astir literate leaders successful nan Vatican’s modern history. | Lit Hub Religion
• “I did not yet cognize nan quality betwixt English and Arabic, aliases really immoderate words mightiness become—borders, weapons, traps.” Sarah Aziza connected what it intends to beryllium a Palestinian writer today. | Lit Hub Craft
• Ana Hebra Flaster confronts nan root myths of Cuban exile families. | Lit Hub Politics
• Sophy Roberts recommends what to battalion while visiting nan Congo, now and successful nan 19th century. | Lit Hub Travel
• Drew Harvell explores human fascination pinch nan otherwordly octopus. | Lit Hub Nature
• Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Nasser Rabah, Lydia Millet, and much are among the 25 caller titles retired now. | Lit Hub Reading Lists 
• Lydia Millet connected the suffix “-ist” and penning successful nan present: “I conscionable travel nan threads of nan sentences and nan made-up personalities and spot wherever nan doors and windows appear.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “In nan midst of life’s challenges, his lines are lifelines.” Haleh Liza Gafori connected the enduring powerfulness of Rumi. | Lit Hub Biography
• “When I still lived successful nan city, I worked arsenic a movie professional for a poorly distributed, religiously publication mag and had gained a estimation for being overly critical.” Read from Marie-Helene Bertino’s caller communicative collection, Exit Zero. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Phil Klay connected nan precocious Pope Francis, and his belief that “the Church could beryllium a spot for harmonious growth.” | Vanity Fair
• “Like astir narratives of violence, rape stories thin to clot successful nan fissure betwixt nan aberrant and nan banal.” Jamie Hood considers Gisèle Pelicot, Virginie Despentes, and nan narratives of a station #MeToo world. | Bookforum
• Zach Rabiroff interviews Rebecca Burke, nan 28-year-old cartoonist from Wales who was detained by ICE while visiting nan United States connected a tourer visa. | The Comics Journal
• “James’s observations tin publication for illustration nan mutterings of an insensitive middle-class man who doesn’t for illustration seeing caller neighbors move successful down nan block.” Scott Bradfield connected Henry James’ strained narration pinch his location country. | The New Republic
• Samuel Franklin uncovers the amazingly short history of nan conception of “creativity.” | MIT Technology Review
• Sayaka Murata connected the struggle of being an “ordinary earthling.” | The Guardian

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