Lit Hub Daily: February 21, 2017

TODAY: In 1925, The New Yorker debuts.

There’s no need to be rude: Rachel Cusk on truth, politeness, and what unkind language reveals about society. | The New York Times
“There are other ways of telling stories, and other ways of staging history, that other playwrights did better.” Against the perception that Shakespeare was a singular genius. | The New Yorker
34 works by women of color to read in 2017, including Valeria Luiselli, Edwidge Danticat, and Jenny Zhang. | Electric Literature
The world will be Tlön: On the parallels between Voldie’s list of “underreported” terrorist attacks and Borges’ imagined construction of a false, alternate reality. | n+1
On the slowly vanishing, gender-specific language Nüshu, which allowed women to “keep autobiographies, write poetry and stories, and communicate with ‘sworn sisters.’” | Atlas Obscura
Where truth fails, fiction flourishes: On the “lost literary genius” of Carson McCullers, who would have turned 100 this Sunday. | The Guardian
After an interview in which he appeared to condone pedophilia emerged, Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal has been cancelled. | Publishers Weekly

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