Lit Hub Weekly: December 30 – January 3, 2025

TODAY: In 1883, Max Eastman is born.

• “As the politics of anger and fear return to power, I try to find encouragement in what she did.” On Ursula K. Le Guin’s politics and activism. | Lit Hub Politics
• What does it mean to remake Nosferatu (instead of, say, Dracula)? | Lit Hub Film
• Jamaica Kincaid talks to Sandra Guzmán about colonialism, gardening, and worshipping her plants. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Sara Mitchell explores racing, a family legacy of survival, and what car crashes can reveal about human hubris and fragility. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “How can a team this good, with players this good, with game this good, have so little collective swagger?” Alan Dean shares some thoughts about 2024 in baseball. | n+1
• On the fragrant history of rosemary in literature and culture. | JSTOR Daily
• Hagai Palevsky considers three books and a comics festival. | The Comics Journal
• “[I]magined worlds are precious; we who succumb to their power may find them very hard to give up.” Andrea Long Chu considers Dungeons & Dragons at fifty. | New York Magazine
• “Yet within the contours of the emerging Trump administration a clear vision for the nation’s schools is emerging, and it looks a lot like the past.” On the United States before public education. | The Baffler
• Jeet Heer remembers prolific sci-fi and pulp novelist Barry Malzberg: “If your life absolutely depended on it, could you write a readable and publishable novel in 27 hours?” | The Nation
• These are some of 2024’s most notable comics and graphic novels: “This was a good year for memoirs.” | The Comics Journal

Also on Lit Hub:

Look forward to these sci-fi and fantasy books in 2025 • Literary resolutions Maris Kreizman is making for the new year • 2024’s most notable literary deaths • Children’s books to look out for this year • Poetry collections to feel excited about in 2025 • Kick off the new year with these 21 new paperbacks