September 11, 2023 ‹ Literary Hub

TODAY: In 1985, Australian author Eleanor Dark dies at 84.    

• “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.” What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and science) teach us about trauma. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Meet the army of horsewomen warriors in Afghanistan, defending their homes from some of the world’s most elusive enemies. | Lit Hub
• Robert MacFarlane on the disruptive, decolonizing imagery of Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau. | Lit Hub Nature
• Michaela Cavanagh in praise of climate stories that complicate the narrative: “If we limit ourselves to viewing our current crisis only through the lens of loss, we’ll never get out alive.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
• How to write about pets (when you’re really not an animal person). | Lit Hub
• “It is a little odd for a fictional narrator to be addressing another fictional character as an immediately identifiable historical figure.” Michael Wood considers the narrator of In Search of Lost Time. | Lapham’s Quarterly
• A history of Goody Two-Shoes, the protagonist of the first English children’s novel, published in 1765. | Smithsonian Magazine
• Kimiko Hahn, whose “poetry projects the soul and challenges the human spirit by inviting readers to explore the mysteries of science and nature,” has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Foundation. | AP News
• Karin Boye’s Kallocain, a contemporary of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, explores how the “inner lives of women illustrate both the power and the vulnerability of the authoritarian state.” | The New Yorker
• Clint Smith on Josiah Henson, the man Harriet Beecher Stowe said inspired her most famous character. | The Atlantic