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- “The facts surrounding these events explain nothing about the years of silence that followed the darkest day in Olean’s history.” Sally Ventura tells the story of America’s first mass school shooting. | Lit Hub History
- Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott explore how Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and more chose their pen names. | Lit Hub Biography
- Catherine Lacey’s TBR includes books by Jen Calleja, Tezer Özlü, and Georgi Gospodinov! | Lit Hub Criticism
- Siouxzi Connor recommends Sapphic books that explore hydrofeminism by Dylin Hardcastle, Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How Edna Lewis became a queer icon of Southern cooking. | Lit Hub Food
- Radha Vatsal remembers the literary legacy of her great-great grandfather, Nandshankar Mehta, and traces the forgotten history of South Asian cosmopolitanism. | Lit Hub History
- Jane Smiley and Susan Swan discuss the importance of women who take up space: “Being unusually tall makes you feel set apart because mostly everybody else sees someone with the same weight, height and coloring every day.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Upstairs, I paused at my bedroom door, hearing Rick’s delicate, papery snore, and walked down the hall, pushing open the door to Alex’s room.” Read from Jayson Greene’s new novel, UnWorld. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Few have cared so deeply for the poor or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously.” Ben Woollard on Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism. | JSTOR Daily
- “If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land.” Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the precious forest pharmacy of the Adirondacks. | Orion
- “Brian’s genius was bound up in his fixation on these paradoxes: the absence that haunts every presence; the love that’s most vital just before it drains away; pain and beauty too enmeshed to be pulled apart.” Charlotte Shane on Ben Greenman’s I Am Brian Wilson and the late musician’s legacy. | n+1
- Sophie Gonick considers the construction of migrant spaces in New York. | Public Books
- “Italian rhythm is obviously different from that of English, but it has a pronounced physiognomy: this aspect allowed the translator to hear it naturally and render it instinctively into its linguistic twin.” On poetry in translation between English and Italian. | Asymptote
- Authors are taking to TikTok to prove they aren’t using generative AI. | Wired
