TODAY: In 1804, Immanuel Kant dies.
- “Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that… holds space for contradiction.” Alejandro Heredia on the novelist to community organizer pipeline. | Lit Hub Craft
- Nicki Kattoura on Mohammed El-Kurd and the preservation of Palestinian humanity: “The perfect victim possesses neither subjectivity nor agency, ignores the occupation, is feeble, frail, groveling at the feet of their oppressors.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Brigitte Giraud tells us about the alternate universe where she’s a pop star (and answers our other burning questions). | Lit Hub In Conversation
- David Levering Lewis meditates on the eternal questions of race and power surrounding the American national narrative. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “See, you’ve drunk up all the language.” Read two poems by Emma Ruth Rundle from the collection The Bella Vista. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Eve L. Ewing on the structural factors behind why Black and Native families struggle to achieve social mobility through education. | Lit Hub Politics
- “The story had always seemed improbable to me.” Megan Marshall traces Nathaniel Hawthorne’s family and biographical lies. | Lit Hub Biography
- “On Christmas Day it snowed in Rome; and that was the only cause of joy for the girls of the Grimaldi.” Read from Alba De Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back, translated by Ann Goldstein. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jhumpa Lahiri on translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses: “At a certain point, the ‘sacred stone’ of the source text must be cast behind my back so as to give birth to a new version in a new language in a new moment in time.” | The Dial
- “Life and death aren’t as separate as we might assume. The graves taught me their lesson of time and timelessness.” Dan Beachy-Quick on visiting the graveyard that bears his family name. | Poetry
- Magaret Atwood will release a memoir next fall. | Vogue
- Rosalind Harvey considers the work of translation through the lens of attachment theory. | Words Without Borders
- Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd on “the criminalization of thought” in the United States and Israel. | Democracy Now!
- “What no one wants to admit is that you cannot produce an avant-garde in a climate of fear.” Sean Monahan on the post-internet era in art and the search for the new avant-garde. | Dirt
