TODAY: In 1860, Anton Chekhov is born.
- “Everyone writes about New York with so much tenderness, even when they are sick of it.” Kay Sohini discovers a literary New York (in graphic memoir). | Lit Hub Memoir
- Ruth Franklin on the connection between an obscure German noblewoman and Anne Frank: “One day, while I was looking over my notes, they jumped out at me. Who was Liselotte von der Pfalz?” | Lit Hub Biography
- Deni Ellis Béchard considers the role of AI in fiction and wonders what might happen if “a powerful AI in fact rigidly prioritized core human values.” | Lit Hub Technology
- Robert D. Kaplan reflects on globalization, social media, and a world in crisis. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “But to the extent that these animals do have equally strong interests, you can be confident that their interests are equally intrinsically valuable.” Jeff Sebo on our attempts to measure intrinsic value. | Lit Hub History
- “It was raining, English rain, that first night when he came to England. Thin, fine icicles that fell at a slant and made incisions.” Read from Beena Kamlani’s debut novel The English Problem. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “She was not destined to live to see that moment. She lived on the exhale, until the end.” Krzysztof Czyżewski on Victoria Amelina. | Arrowsmith Press
- On digital memory, access to information, and In Search of Lost Time. | Public Books
- “We have this idea that things are okay, or we don’t think about or question how the systems may have worked in the past. We’re very much attached to this myth of benevolence, which is spread by pop culture and media.” Heather Radke and Kristen Martin consider the role of orphans in fiction. | The Baffler
- How Gillian Rose’s writings built “a Marxism hostile to political dogmas of all kinds.” | Jacobin
- Deborah Eisenberg considers the messages of a new exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages. | New York Review of Books
- Philip Ball examines why the connective power of the internet may actually be ripping us apart. | Los Angeles Review of Books
