TODAY: In 1893, artist, author, translator, and illustrator Wanda Gág is born. Gág is best known for writing and illustrating the children’s book Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print.
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- Callie Collins, Susan Morrison, Mariam Rahmani and more authors answer our burning literary questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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- How the origins of an iconic American invention began with Benjamin Franklin’s cold feet. | Lit Hub History
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- How Emily Dickinson transformed letters into poetry. | MIT Press Reader
- Amanda Crocker explores the world of far right imprints. | Jacobin
- “In Palestine, the obscurities one encounters are often the only things that can be experienced.” Max Weiss interviews Adania Shibli. | The Paris Review
- ICE has detained Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder and a leader of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University. | Democracy Now!
- Harriet Baker recounts Sylvia Townsend Warner’s rural life. | Granta
- David Cole considers how universities are responding to anti-DEI pressure from the Trump administration (not courageously, it turns out). | New York Review of Books
