TODAY: In 1931, Swedish poet and posthumous Nobel Prize laureate Erik Axel Karlfeldt dies.
- Sally Rooney examines the short stories of Thomas Morris and introduces “Wales” from Morris’s new collection, Open Up. | Lit Hub Short Story
- Katie Kitamura on falling in love with her characters, her favorite book to gift, and more! | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Melville captures the experience of whaling, the romance and peril of the sea, in the way I’d hoped to depict my character’s love affair with flying.” Kate Folk on her aviation-themed homage to Moby-Dick. | Lit Hub Craft
- L. Sasha Gora considers The Abandoners, The Price of Salt, and the stray mothers of literature: “It is the abandoner who defines the abandoned, never the other way around, and yet both need each other for these terms to stick.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Andrea Long Chu explains why she loves Dungeons & Dragons and tells us what she listens to when she writes. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- The 23 new books out this week include titles by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrea Long Chu, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Kate Folk about her novel, Sky Daddy, and paying homage to a literary classic. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Amity Gaige, Kevin Nguyen, Annie Hartnett and more authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “George was already drunk, out by the pool, rum in hand, when Fred left with the gun.” Read from Lynn Steger Strong’s novel, The Float Test. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Elif Batuman profiles Sayaka Murata: “Instinctively, I grouped Murata with more radical and less nostalgic thinkers: people like Michel Foucault, who showed that so many supposedly biological or universal phenomena—madness, sex, criminality, medicine—are socially constructed.” | The New Yorker
- Francesco Perono Cacciafoco meditates on what it means to be a modern human who deciphers ancient languages. | Aeon
- “If it is helping them, does it matter if a bee knows it is sad?” Emily Polk considers bees and grief. | Emergence Magazine
- What is there to learn from Trump’s Art of… books? John Ganz bravely revisits them to find out. | The Nation
- “I can build a whole machine and drive it into someone. Polemical writing is kind of built to do that.” Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Gus Mitchell examines a new dual-language translation of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. | Jacobin
