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“Each of these events—or at least their coverage, emerged from a desire to overwhelm, dominate, or subsume. Infect, in other words.” Heather McCalden on World AIDS Day and living in a culture of virality. | Lit Hub Health

A new month means new paperbacks! December brings editions by Kaveh Akbar, Anthony Veasna So, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

David Woo looks back on 2024’s best poetry collections (and shares new poetry recommendations for December). | Lit Hub Criticism

These are the sci-fi and fantasy books you should look out for in December, including work by Alex Segura, Julia Armfield, Alison Stine, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Michael Palma on why Dante’s Divine Comedy is more relevant than ever: “It is no wonder that the Internet abounds in reviews from readers who started the Divine Comedy expecting to be bored or confused but who instead have found themselves riveted.” | Lit Hub Criticism

Caroline Carlson recommends 10 children’s books you might have missed in 2024. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“Midway through our life’s journey, I once found / myself in a dark wood, for I had strayed / from the straight pathway to this tangled ground.” Read from a new translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy by Michael Palma. | Lit Hub Fiction

After an injury, elite ballerina Allie Rousseau returns to her summer home to heal and recover. But the memories she’s tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under. From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Fourth Wing comes a moving new novel of taking risks, following your heart, and second chances at love. 

Our magazine seeks stories, essays and poems that wonder how we might live in the aftermath of disasters, how we might recommit ourselves to community and language, and how such affirmations will necessitate, as our namesake suggests, a clear-eyed engagement with the aesthetic, the ethical, and the numinous.

“Paradoxically, the omnipresence of the Olympians explains why we seldom wonder where they have gone.” Ed Simon on the belief in Greek gods. | The Hedgehog Review

Hua Hsu remembers Giant Robot, a magazine that explored Asian American culture, presenting “just one vision of a life among many, not an agenda to be followed.”| The New Yorker

Living history, with giant turkey legs: On the allure of the Renaissance Faire. | JSTOR Daily

“What makes it special is its systematic review of the legumes themselves…” On some very unique cookbooks. | The Paris Review

Charlie Robertshaw examines the impact of war on Burmese poetry and the “poetry of witness.” | Asymptote 

Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on why solidarity will save us. | Jacobin

If you dreamed of becoming an artist. If story time is the best part of being a parent. If your favorite color has always been purple. If you know big ideas come in small books. How to Draw the World takes you on an illustrated tour through the remarkable world of Harold and his purple crayon.

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

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