Lit Hub Weekly Highlights

The Lit Hub Weekly has released its latest issue, featuring a range of articles on various literary and cultural topics.

Grief and literature are explored in an article on Lit Hub TV, which discusses how Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up.

In another article, Lit Hub Politics examines the tragedy of Jason Arday and how it reflects a rigged game for today's Black scholars.

Environmentalism is also a focus of an article on Lit Hub Criticism, which explores how it shows up in Ursula K. Le Guin's fiction.

The article on Lit Hub On Translation discusses why Walden resonates with modern Chinese youth, with the author stating that "Walden is not popular in China because Chinese readers misunderstand Thoreau. It is popular because they understand him precisely."

In the poetry section, R.K. Hegelman writes about Fernando Pessoa, describing him as "an extreme and singular figure in a modern poetic tradition that views poems not just as texts, but as gnostic vehicles of self-annihilation and worldly renovation."

Ed Park discusses his book, Three Tenses, in an article on Broadcast, and Rebecca Ford takes a deep dive into the Children of Blood and Bone set in an article for Vanity Fair.

Anna Ballan writes about Freud in the age of therapy-speak in an article for The Hedgehog Review, stating that "We inhabit a world where the tendencies Hamlet embodied are magnified, and where opportunities for self-commentary are effectively continuous."

In other news, 404 Media reports that Amazon is destroying books to train AI, and Maria Adelmann writes about the crisis of the eternal adjunct in an article for The Nation.

The lost vocabulary of whaling is explored in an article on Orion, which takes readers on an illustrated stroll through the world of whaling.

Lucy Ives presents a theory of Paul Celan in an article on Poetry, stating that "Here is a wild proposition, then: Celan didn't write in any language…he was writing in between languages."

Paul Michael Johnson considers the new books, music, and other pieces of art and media fueling the culture's fixation on nuns in an article on Public Books.

Mychal Denzel Smith writes about the legacy and exploitation of "Woke 1" in an article on Defector, stating that "A multi-racial, multi-gender coalition of mostly young people took to the streets demanding protection and investment in black life, and the best the country could do was to retire Aunt Jemima."

Geertje Bol considers the historical case for "righteous zeal" in an article on Aeon, and Mark Bould interviews China Miéville in an article on Boston Review.

Lauren Michele Jackson writes about the reduction of Jason Arday in an article on The New Yorker, stating that "Arday is dead and still being propped up as an example of various crises, by commentators unconcerned with his memory."

Grace Byron, Dorothea Lasky, Philip Ball, and more write about astrology in an article on Broadcast, and Mitch Therieau explains the lure of "lore" in an article on The New York Times Magazine.