TODAY: In 1880, Radclyffe Hall, English poet and author of the novel The Well of Loneliness, is born.
- On 65 years of Green Eggs and Ham and how we handle the complex legacy of Theodor Geisel. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Noah Giansiracusa on how data dominates every facet of our lives (and how we can reclaim our humanity). | Lit Hub Technology
- Nick Fuller Googins embraces analog research methods at the library: “If anyone is going to resist AI for the writing process, it should be us writers.” | Lit Hub Craft
- On the artistic transformations of Constantine Cavafy, the most influential poetic voice in modern Greek literature. | Lit Hub Biography
- The 26 new books out today include an anthology of reimagined lesbian pulp, essays by trans and gender non-conforming writers of color, and a history of the fight for sex ed! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Is it fate or coincidence? Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee, and authorial happenstance. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Depending on the context, ‘fun’ has the potential to break my heart.” Peter Orner, Morgan Richter, Kate Riley and more authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “There was no bride. There was no groom. No seating chart with my name in calligraphy—dot next to Julia indicating a preference for fish.” Read from Aisha Muharrar’s debut novel, Loved One. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Mary Gaitskill meditates on the nature of violence. | The Point
- Public schools in Florida will be forced to remove 55 books without review by the state’s Board of Education. | Book Riot
- “Research, writing, and, above all, thinking have always meant more than simply producing an answer.” Dan Rockmore on what it’s like to brainstorm with A.I. | The New Yorker
- Jennifer Zacharia reports on the murder of Anas al-Sharif, and Israel’s war on Palestinian journalists. | Boston Review
- “Her work moves between the ongoing catastrophe of American poverty and a sense of unabashed astonishment, an unrelenting obsession with the stars.” Joshua Bennett writes an elegy to Nikki Giovanni. | Poetry
- From Beat Poets to Happenings, Ben Arthur revisits New York’s downtown avant-garde scene. | Los Angeles Review of Books
