Lit Hub Daily: May 29, 2020

• Masculinity as radical selfishness: Rebecca Solnit on the maskless men of the pandemic. | Lit Hub
• “These were the faces of refugees, prisoners of war, stricken villagers anywhere. Any time.” Megan Marshall on her grandfather’s photos of a 1919 typhus epidemic. | Lit Hub History
• Build those TBR piles ever higher with round ten of our personalized quarantine book recommendations. | Lit Hub
• Amid the pandemic, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation has never been busier, with requests for assistance increasing from two to three a week to nearly eighty a day. | Lit Hub
• On the malign impulse to name a disease after a group of people: Mary Ann Cherry on Asian-American racism and AIDS-era homophobia. | Lit Hub
• Find a little beauty in the best book covers of May. | Lit Hub
• Gentrification fiction: Lisa Braxton on the literature of neighborhoods in peril. | CrimeReads
• New titles from J. M. Coetzee, Elliot Ackerman, Meredith Talusan, and Michael Connelly all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• From The Sympathizer to The Incendiaries, Katie Yee recommends 25 Books by Asian-American and Pacific Islander writers to read right now. | Book Marks
• “Whenever I have been about to set off anywhere, I can’t help but wonder: how will I be received?” Jini Reddy on entering the (very white, very male) travel genre. | The Guardian
• “She’s just like us, but she can write — and lives in Nantucket”: The (entirely explicable) allure of Elin Hilderbrand. | The Washington Post
• Former n+1 editor Nikil Saval is running to be a state senator in Pennsylvania, on a socialist platform. | The New York Times
• What literature made cameo appearances in the BBC adaptation of Normal People? | Vogue UK
• “We are suffering from a manufactured disaster, produced by the private and privatizing model of higher education intensely unique to this country.” What will become of higher education in the U.S. after the pandemic? | n+1
• How did book publishers handle the decision of whether to move publication dates around the pandemic? | Forbes
• Espionage experts pick their favorite spy books. | Wall Street Journal
  

Also on Lit Hub: Michael Zadoorian on writing about Detroit’s “creative class” • On the untold talent of Dora Marr, more than a muse of Picasso • Read an excerpt from Maryse Condé’s novel The Belle Creole, trans. by Nicole Simek.