At The New Inquiry, read the Palestinian Youth Movement’s statement marking one year since October 7: “It will take decades to understand the scale of the violence Palestinians have endured this year. The grief across the Arab world is unfathomable. Our children are not numbers. They are among the two million forgotten by a world willed to forget: Why had this been allowed to happen, why had it been made to seem normal?”
Verso has announced a pamphlet series to answer pressing questions about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The first two installments are Andreas Malm’s The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth and Didier Fassin’s Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza.
Robert Coover, the American writer and teacher known for his experimental and metafictional stories, has died at the age of ninety-two. Among Coover’s best-known works are his 1977 novel The Public Burning—a satire about the Rosenbergs and Richard Nixon—and his 1969 short story “The Babysitter.” From 1978 until 2013, Coover taught writing at Brown, where his students included Rick Moody and Sam Lipsyte, and where he co-founded the Freedom to Write program. Coover was also a founder, in 1999, of the Electronic Literature Organization, which encourages writers to experiment with new forms by engaging with electronic media.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday. At The Guardian, Ella Creamer takes stock of the favorites to win: Can Xue, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, César Aira, Gerald Murnane, and Thomas Pynchon.
Online at Public Books, Emily Wells, Emma Ramadan, Marouane Bakhti, Lauren Elkin, Xiaolu Guo, Joanna Biggs, Claire Foster, Olivia Baes, and Rebecca Liu offer reflections on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of its publication.