TODAY: In 1890, Moa Martinson is born. HowA Working Mother, Agnes Owens’s novel of the Scottish working class, reveals “the surrealness of everyday life.”| Lit HubCriticismCaroline Carlson recommendsgreat children’s books coming in Novemberby Neil Sharpson, Avi Steinberg, Gideon Sterer and more. | Lit HubReading ListsThis month’s best new poetry collectionsfeature glass skulls, luminosity, soup, and other miracles! | Lit HubReading ListsDilman Dila, Faraaz Mahomed, and Sven Axelrad discussspirits and ghosts in African literary traditions with Karina M. Szczurek. | Lit HubIn ConversationBooks by Hermione Lee, Jessica Craig-Martin, and Olivia Swarthout featured inthe best new nonfiction out this November. | Lit HubReading ListsThese upcoming sci-fi and fantasy books will introduce you tovampiric broodmothers, gig-economy ghosts, and medieval abortionists. | Lit HubReading ListsThis week in literary history, Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American writer to winthe Nobel Prize in Literature. | Lit HubHistory“To ride across the bay at this hour is to see Shep’s Island at its most beautiful.” Read from Rose Smith’s new novel, The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian. | Lit HubFictionMeet Malfoid, the (ironically gender-swapped)Harry Pottermemeof far-right incel origin. | WiredGrace Byron talks to Alexandra Schwartz aboutexorcism, Goodreads warriors, and other more little frights. | Broadcast“She saw up close the fine line between the confessional and the salacious, the difficulties of being an admired public figure and an object of prurience.”Meghan Racklin on Tove Ditlevsen’s life and work(and the spaces between). | The New RepublicMFAs are good, actually?“Why so much ire? We don’t get mad about college for HVAC.” | The WalrusWhy the dilettante isthe (anti)hero we need. | AeonRebecca Onion talks to Ursula Wills, the author of the short story that inspired the movieWicker. | Slate