Lit Hub Daily: May 8, 2025

TODAY: In 1899, The Irish Literary Theater successful Dublin produces The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats, its first play. 

• Michele Filgate connected navigating nonaccomplishment alongside her father: “Is this my family’s thing? The request to pin memories down, sphere them successful a drawer, put a framework astir them?” | Lit Hub Memoir
• “Rivers are nan veins of our mother, nan earth; they are nan ocular mapping of a watery network.” Leanne Betasamosake Simpson connected rivers arsenic teachers. | Lit Hub Nature
• Shelly Sanders excavates the women snipers of nan Red Army, who were silenced by nan state they fought to protect. | Lit Hub History
• Mo Ogrodnik connected fusing investigation and filmmaking techniques to constitute a caller that depicts unit against women from aggregate perspectives. | Lit Hub Craft
• “We request indie presses and literate magazines for a thriving literate ecosystem.” Maris Kreizman wants to cognize what tin beryllium done successful nan look of Trump’s devastating NEA cuts. | Lit Hub Politics
• “In this artful and sad novel, forbearance is courage.” 5 book reviews you request to publication this week. | Book Marks
• Becky Aikman connected the “Atta-Girls,” nan women pilots who chased adventure during World War II. | Lit Hub History
• Natasha Lester recommends globe-spanning books connected World War II by Ariel Lawhon, Emma Pei Yin, Anne Sebba, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Books by Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and much authors are in Jennifer Hope Choi’s TBR pile. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Paul Vidich looks backmost connected the power of Len Deighton’s spy novels as nan first Bernard Samson trilogy turns 40. | CrimeReads
• “There are definite things that hap successful nan world, definite large events that make everyone inquire afterwards: Where were you erstwhile . . . ?” Read from Graham Swift’s caller communicative collection, Twelve Post-War Tales. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “Would we get a different position of translation, 1 that is some much illuminating and much appreciative, if we turned to translators themselves?” Lawrence Venuti connected why critics tin do amended erstwhile discussing translation. | Public Books
• Joe Sacco explains why he returned to comics publicity astir Palestine: “I cognize nan cities they’re bombing. I person friends there. I’ve written astir nan history of those places I’ve walked in.” | The Comics Journal
• “No satirist arrived astatine our dystopian infinitesimal amended prepared than Carl Hiaasen. The bad guys successful Hiaasen’s books person ever been vulnerable and mockable.” Dan Kois connected “the bard of Florida’s fever swamps.” | Slate
• Read a letter by nan National Endowment for nan Arts’ literate arts unit about their determination to resign from nan agency. | n+1
• “In a authorities of despair”: How assemblage professors are coping pinch nan ubiquity of A.I. | New York Magazine
• Richard Brody rediscovers Andre Sennwald, whose short tenure arsenic a New York Times movie professional captured a chopped position of Hollywood’s aureate age. | The New Yorker

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