TODAY: In 1879, Wallace Stevens is born. Assal Rad examines the parallels between the American media’s treatment of the invasion of Iraq and the genocide in Gaza . | Lit Hub Politics These five books are essential reading on women in the early Civil Rights Movement . | Lit Hub History What can we learn from the earth’s earliest soil? “This was perhaps the planet’s first mass extinction event.” | Lit Hub Nature “George Bailey is more Christmas than Santa Claus.” In praise of Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life . | Lit Hub Film Brittany Cavallaro on writing for (and teaching) young adults : “My students are simultaneously cerebral readers and emotional ones, and those feelings can be at odds with each other, sometimes.” | Lit Hub Craft Julia Cohen recommends nine books with big secrets by Brandon Shimoda, Andrea Lawlor, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists “Laura didn’t remember moving to Platte, Nebraska.

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I could almost have been home in the Land of the Free.” William T. Vollman visits Cuba . | Granta Gavin Francis surveys three recent books on male bodybuilding and looks at “the range and churn of today’s media landscape or the frenzied dialogue between online influencers and men in their neighborhood locker rooms.” | New York Review of Books Why human reasoning is so much more than machine optimization. | Aeon