☆☆☆ THE ISSUES: 2024 ☆☆☆

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Lit Hub is going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Today we look at the impact of gun violence, with examinations of the role of local politics, the ten best books for understanding gun violence, and more. | Lit Hub Politics

• “I looked for my novel on the screen. I found the skeleton of it intact. Its revolutionary content was missing.” Sol Yurick, author of The Warriors, remembers searching for a trace of his book on the big screen. | Lit Hub Film
• “What Refaat has done in his lifetime will outlive the person who pushed the button.” Yousef Aljamal and Rawan Yaghi pay tribute to Refaat Alareer. | Lit Hub Biography
• Robin Waterfield explores the timelessness of Aesop’s fables. | Lit Hub History
• “A timely, distinctive description of the haunted lives of refugees.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• Randall K. Wilson considers the impact of the 1959 explosion of Yellowstone: “…the park was more than just a vacation destination.” | Lit Hub Nature
• Nina Edwards explores a brief history of women’s underwear: “The question here is why this longing persists, at a time when many women appear to have gained a far greater level of autonomy.” | Lit Hub Style
• “You knew… that taste was indistinguishable from morality and yours wasn’t good enough.” Sarah Moss on the prides and pressures of girlhood. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “One day he came, handed me a little box, and said look, look inside.” Read Antònia Vicens’s story “Remembrances,” featured in the new issue of The Common. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “There is no protective equipment for journalists, and there are no institutions to protect us from this bombing and continuous targeting.” Three Palestinian journalists on what it’s like to publish from within a genocide. | The Nation
• Sophie Vershbow looks behind the curtain at the political book publishing machine. | Esquire
• “There is a personal benefit in sitting with a tragic story for a prolonged time. It allows us to think about how humans navigate loss.” Carleigh Baker considers the tragic novel in a time of continually broadcasted human suffering. | Hazlitt
• Emily Raboteau on Tibbetts Brook, a long buried waterway in the Bronx. | Broadcast
• Ellen Walker traces the (not so fluffy) history of gremlin folklore. | JSTOR Daily
• Michelle Hartman and Caline Nasrallah discuss translating Asmaa Alatawna’s A Long Walk From Gaza. | Asymptote