Author R.F. Kuang has dropped out of a UAE literary festival, citing the BDS boycott.

R.F. Kuang, the bestselling novelist behind Katabasis, Yellowface, and Babel, is taking a stand with the BDS movement. Citing a call from th

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September 11, 2025

Things we like from around the web:

Simon Lewsen considers whether the crisis in the humanities is an existential one. | The Local
Camille Tinnin makes the case for the educational power of speculative fiction, which “offers a productive playground in which readers can apply social theory to analyze power structures.” | JSTOR Daily
“The customer is king, do you not understand?” Hu Anyan on delivering parcels in Beijing. | The Dial
David Schurman Wallace goes to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with his parents. | The Paris Review
Jack Norton and Judah Schept report on the presence of ICE in Harlan County, Kentucky and the American deportation machine. | n+1
“The State Department is acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner against victims of genogacide by suspending these visas and not giving any context or reason for why.” On students from Gaza who were admitted to American universities. | The Intercept

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September 8, 2025

Today, we’re giving you your next fall reads, looking at Chocolat after 25 years, exploring the relationship between spiritualism and World War I, and more!

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What should you read next? Our editors recommend 15 new novels for your fall TBR! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Joanne Harris reflects on writing a sequel to Chocolat after 25 years. | Lit Hub Craft
“Novelty becomes the name of the game in lieu of our mundane daily bread.” On Eve Babitz, Carl Jung, and searching for synchronicity in life and literature. | Lit Hub Criticism
Sarah Adler reads Blake Butler while considering how we tell the stories of other people’s suicides. | Lit Hub Craft
Alice Vernon explores the rise of spiritualism after the First World War: “Séances ceased being a party game or stage act and instead became a beacon of hope for those who were left behind that their sons, brothers and husbands weren’t truly gone.” | Lit Hub History
On titles by Leonard Cohen, John Williams, Alfred Doblin, and more books you didn’t know were first published by Viking. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“God’s many guises— / dervishes, darkened ballparks. / Artificial hearts.” Read an excerpt from Kevin Young’s poem “All Souls,” featured in the collection Night Watch. | Lit Hub Poetry
“I’d been warned that it wouldn’t be easy to go digging up the dead.” Read from Mariana Travacio’s novel All That Dies in April, translated by Will Morningstar and Samantha Schnee. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“After all, it’s a book about finding yourself at the end of the world.” Carmen Maria Machado meditates on I Who Have Never Known Men and its recent TikTok resurgence. | The New Yorker
Katherine Rundell considers what Hamlet can mean to children readers. | The New York Times
Investigating the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza. | Tribune Mag
Mahfud Ikhwan on mangoes, bittersweet nostalgia, and a food culture that no longer exists. | Words Without Borders
As it turns out, playing Tiny Bookshop is accurate to the bookselling experience. | Vulture

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September 2, 2025

Today, we’re previewing this month’s new books, tracing the influence of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth on literature, investigating what we can learn from books we don’t like, and more!

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“In Israel, the literary world censors, silences, distorts, segregates and thus collaborates with the atrocities perpetrated in Gaza.” An open letter from an editor in Israel. | Lit Hub Politics
Rabhi Alameddine considers depressing books that could cheer you up by Gerbrand Bakker, Hans Fallada, Leo Tolstoy, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Logan Karlie explores the literary afterlives of Labyrinth and the liminal space between dreams and reality. | Lit Hub Film
From spooky quests to new tellings of familiar tales, Caroline Carlson recommends 10 great children’s books coming out in September. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
You don’t need to love The House of Mirth (or, what we can learn from books we don’t like). | Lit Hub Criticism
This month’s new poetry leans into mystics, martyrs, bats, blood sonnets! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Natalie Zutter highlights fall sci-fi and fantasy by C.L. Clark, Naomi Novik, K.J. Parker, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Jane Ciabattari talks to Joan Silber: “I’ve never been a writer who knows what she’s doing before she sets out.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
The 20 books out today include titles by Arundhati Roy, Nathan Harris, Bolu Babalola, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“The Colombian heiress had problems of her own, obviously. Traumas I couldn’t relate to.” Read “The Heiress” from Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s collection, Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

Richard Grant visits Cormac McCarthy’s personal library, two years after the author’s death. | Smithsonian Magazine
“Her white is not only luminous but also blinding. Empty, but filled to the point of overwhelm. It is a frequency too saturated to parse.” Dashiel Carrera considers whiteness in sleep, the Velvet Underground, and Han Kang’s latest novel. | Los Angeles Review of Books
What growing up with a magician as a father can teach about skepticism and curiosity. | The MIT Press Reader
“Few fruits carry as many contradictions as the Punica granatum, better known as the pomegranate.” On the mythology and medicine of the poet’s favorite fruit. | JSTOR Daily
What John Updike got wrong about the aftermath of Katrina: “Maybe it wouldn’t have been worth it to criticize his imperfect or, frankly, lazy and racist analysis.” | Oxford American
Everyone’s Bourdainposting (but they don’t understand Bourdain). | Vulture

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August 29, 2025

Today, we round up the best book covers of August, meditate on why we write, and examine the horrifying parallels between the genocides in Srebrenica and Gaza, and more.

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Our favorite August book covers are all about paintings, text treatments, and more than one dog. | Lit Hub Design
On the chilling parallels between genocide in Srebrenica and genocide in Gaza: “When we comb through the layers of complicity, we find more than just power-hungry politicians and bloodthirsty generals.” | Lit Hub Politics
This week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Radium Age superheroes and nightstand TBRs! | Lit Hub Radio
Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Nicholas Boggs’ James Baldwin: A Love Story, Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, Peter Ames Carlin’s Tonight in Jungleland, and Jason Mott’s People Like Us all feature among August’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
Maybe you don’t need to stream these literary films and TV shows, but we definitely think you should. | Lit Hub Film
“What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?” Douglas Unger on discovering why you write. | Lit Hub Craft
Our friends at AudioFile Magazine round up their most anticipated audiobooks of September. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“We fell into a long silence, which I later regretted. The quiet in the air held too much meaning for two strangers making small talk.” Read from Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon, translated by Yuki Tejima. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“It’s an atrocity recorded live”: Aymann Ismail on the 189 Palestinian journalists that Israel has killed. | Slate
Joanna Pocock explores America by Greyhound, and considers the “overlooked ecosystem” that includes the buses. | Orion
“Novels that are set in the suburbs continue to be written and published…But the suburban novel was more than that.” Adelle Waldman asks, what happened to the suburban novel? | New York Review of Books
No, there isn’t a crisis of “hypersensitivity” in publishing. | The Baffler
Mae Losasso on why Alice Notley’s writing “resists easy absorption.” | n+1
Nicholas Quah explores the impossibility of a podcast canon: “The medium is just two decades old, yet whole swaths of its history have already been lost: feeds taken offline, platforms shuttered, files no longer hosted.” | Vulture

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August 28, 2025

Today, we’re remembering CliffsNotes, exploring the connection between books and empathy, and more!

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“Somebody wrote an article online that shit talks Fidel.” Profiling the cyber soldiers who crush internet dissent in Cuba. | Lit Hub Technology
Huda Fakhreddine on Paul Celan and the necessity of Gaza to poetry: “If time must continue on its course after this, then it cannot but course toward a free Palestine.” | Lit Hub On Translation
As AI invades classrooms, Joelle Renstrom looks back on the most human of study guides, CliffsNotes. | Lit Hub Criticism
Maris Kreizman explains why books aren’t the solution to building empathy, but they definitely help: “We’re stuck in a moment when passive entertainment rules, when books are viewed by the ruling class as strictly utilitarian.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“Academia is a hellscape; Katabasis just makes it literal.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Kelly Sundberg recommends titles to read for your new life by Saeed Jones, River Selby, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
What if all the ice on earth suddenly melted? “Everything about this epoch is superlative, bizarre, unprecedented.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
“They come under immediate assault from sandflies. Emil is beating them off his neck and shins the whole way, but it pleases him how well he manages the exertion.” Read from Olufemi Terry’s new novel, Wilderness of Mirrors. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

A middle school teacher shares his strategy for engaging reluctant readers. | The Washington Post
“To remember is to risk punishment”: Sajad Hameed and Rehan Qayoom Mir report on India’s book ban in Kashmir. | Jacobin
Ahmad Almallah on the poetics of Palestine, American hypocrisy, and writing “between linguistic borderlands.” | Asymptote
“I’ve since come to think of guilty pleasure only when I think about terrible beauty.” On the entwining legacies of climate change and family history in California. | Nautilus
Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth read “The Lifted Veil,” George Eliot’s angsty tale of emo telepathy. | Reactor
Tate McFadden interviews Sam Szabo about queer cartooning and comics history: “I always think about my creative process as being two channels in my brain. One is memoir and one is gags.” | The Comics Journal

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August 25, 2025

Today, Ahmed Dader writes about surviving famine and massacre in Gaza, Richard Siken talks about line breaks, Sheila Heti gets sincere, and more.

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Ahmed Dader describes the horrors of surviving the Flour Massacre in Gaza: “I will need years for the scenes of that night to fade in my memory.” | Lit Hub Memoir
Richard Siken talks to Poets.org about his new collection, I Do Know Some Things, and the line break as “the most fundamental poetic device.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
How Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies influenced Sheila Heti to write (and live) sincerely. | Lit Hub Criticism
“There are many ways to reflect on the United States before and after colonization, but few people do so exclusively in terms of fire.” How River Selby unexpectedly became a wildland firefighter. | Lit Hub Nature
Nicholas Boggs talks to Danté Stewart about his new biography of James Baldwin: “We need his perspective through the lens of love right now, because hate, obviously, is everywhere.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
Jamie Lee Searle reflects on the rich challenges of translating genre and gender blurring in Kim de l’Horizon’s Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues. | Lit Hub On Translation
“It was one of those things we couldn’t say to one another. I had told Father, Father had told Mother, Mother must have told you.” Read from Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, translated by Jamie Lee Searle. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“I think it’s important to remember how important Black women were to him.” Kaitlyn Greenidge talks to Nicholas Boggs and Jessica B. Harris about James Baldwin’s lovers and friends. | Harper’s Bazaar
Jon Allsop proposes the Moomins as “an antidote to the toxicity of much modern internet discourse.” | The New Yorker
H.M.A. Leow explores how Western travel writing doubled as propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War. | JSTOR Daily
Gordon Marino examines the philosophy of boxing. | The Point
“Designers built gadgets for the innovation class, while residents of Flint, Michigan, drank poisoned water.” How Americans soured on the idea of innovation. | The MIT Press Reader
Luisa Suad Bocconcelli recommends nine recent books by women writers from the Maghreb and its diaspora. | Words Without Borders

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Read the final message sent by murdered Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif.

On Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces bombed a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike killed seven people

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“This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.”

The Israel Defense Forces bombed a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike killed seven people, including Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa.

This is Anas al-Sharif’s final message.

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August 13, 2025

Today, we’re reading about the real whale behind Moby-Dick, seeing what history can teach us about fighting dictators, examining how sex ed emerged from the AIDS epidemic, and more!

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Margaret Grace Myers examines the grim legacy of Ronald Reagan and how the AIDS epidemic laid the foundations for sex ed in America. | Lit Hub Politics
“Hunger now governs time. It becomes the unrelenting measure by which each hour is known.” Alaa Alqaisi on life in Gaza through the lens of WB Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” | Lit Hub Criticism
Sam Wachman on the challenges of writing a novel about the war in Ukraine and literature as “a force for peace and solidarity.” | Lit Hub Craft
Tobias Wolff reflects back on 30 years of Adrienne Salinger’s Teenagers in Their Bedrooms: “The humanity of these young faces implies a depth of feeling and experience that their histories confirm.” | Lit Hub Photography
Tim Queeney explores ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Mocha Dick, the real life inspiration behind Herman Melville’s iconic white whale. | Lit Hub History
“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.” On Thomas Paine’s guide to fighting dictatorship. | Lit Hub Politics
Jane Ciabattari talks to Jessica Francis Kane about exploring the life of Penelope Fitzgerald through fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
“What had gone wrong with me didn’t start out with the car. It didn’t end with the car, but the car played a serious part.” Read from C. Mallon’s new novel, Dogs. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

On the existential horrors of storytelling through AI companionship. | Wired
“The scenes of prison break from Khiam to Sednaya offer us a glimpse into a possible, yet precarious freedom.” The trajectory of prison liberation and abolition across the Middle East. | The Baffler
Riley MacLeod plays Tiny Bookshop, a bookstore management simulation game. | Aftermath
“After the disastrous meeting, he began asking around about where an original golden ticket from the 1971 Willy Wonka movie, a highly valuable collector’s item, could be pawned.” What do crypto bros have to do with Ronald Dahl? It’s a (really) wild story. | New York Magazine
Take a look at some of Mary Ruefle’s erasure texts, which she’s been making “almost daily” since 1998. | The Paris Review

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This year, the Sealey Challenge is raising funds for Gaza.

This August, you can read poems and support Palestine thanks to the Sealey Challenge and The Sameer Project. The Sealey Challenge is a month

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The Sealey Challenge, a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry every day during August, is donating all money collected to The Sameer Project.

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“Where is my antisemitism money?”: A Columbia professor’s letter to the university president.

[Last week, Columbia University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to “resolve multiple federal agency investigations into a

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Last week, Columbia University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to “resolve multiple federal agency investigations into alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws.” As part of the agreement, Columbia will pay a $200 million settlement to the federal government and establish a $21 million class claims fund to “compensate employees who may have experienced antisemitism on Columbia’s campus post-Oct. 7, 2023.” In response to this, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus has written a letter to Columbia Acting President Claire Shipman.

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July 30, 2025

Today, we’re thinking about what Chekhov has to do with Gaza, lying as fiction, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace at 25, and more!

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“If God were like Chekhov, I would be consoled.” Philip Metres on Gaza, wildfires, and the privileges of misery. | Lit Hub Criticism
“Letters, rants, lists. ‘It’s not a fixed thing,’ he says of such forms. ‘It’s ephemeral.’” Eric Olson profiles Ed Park. | Lit Hub Craft
Kate Weinberg explains why the first time she told a lie was also her first attempt at fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
Daniel Saldaña Paris’s TBR includes books by Gustav Flaubert, Yiyun Li, Francesca Wade, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Tom Zeller Jr. explores how medical misogyny impacted the practice of neuroscience (and the treatment of migraines). | Lit Hub History
“At home, I woke up in the middle of the night, turned over for a while, gave up on the acrobatics, and got up. Apparently watching Richard die at work didn’t improve my sleep patterns.” Read from Kashana Cauley’s new novel, The Payback. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“Some of the recipes are perfectly simple, and some of them are just bonkers and fantastic.” A dinner party courtesy of Alice B. Toklas. | The New Yorker
Louise Matsakis explores the context of language and explains why ChatGPT can go “demon mode.” | Wired
“What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?” A roundtable on J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace at 25. | Public Books
Rachel Kushner considers the relationship between literature and prison. | NYRB
Why the future of climate change is the present in Mauritius: “When the government told us to go back home it was already too late. Throughout the town water rose to our knees, our thighs.” | The Dial
H.M.A. Leow examines how conflict between “editorial grip” and “literary autonomy” shaped Lin Yutang’s 1948 novel Chinatown Family. | JSTOR Daily

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July 25, 2025

Today, we’re appreciating the literary value of pranks, rounding up the best reviewed books of the week, considering technoableism, and more!

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Katie Yee explains what pranking the Lit Hub staff taught her about writing: “Both pranking and writing are exercises in careful observation.” | Lit Hub Craft
Alex Poppe considers her family’s history of immigration and why distinctions between expats, economic migrants, an refugees shouldn’t matter. | Lit Hub Politics
Michael Clune’s Pan, Barry Mazor’s Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story, and Linn Ullman’s Girl, 1983 all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
Kalie Cassidy recommends books that explore the myths of sirens by Cassandra Khaw, Rose Sutherland, Emilia Hart, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“When an obsession comes that wants words to be art, you choose (or invent) whatever container will best display it.” Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of hybrid writing. | Lit Hub Craft
“On the Internet, she says, a new platform where students can log on and do homework together. From all over the world. It’s a lockdown thing.” Read from Linn Ullmann’s novel Girl, 1983, translated by Martin Aitken. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“Technosolutionist approaches to disability as something that can be eradicated through technological innovation exacerbate existing forms of erasure by promising a future without disabled people.” Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe on disability erasure and technoablism. | Public Books
Rami Abu Jamous details the death of Obeida, one of hundreds of Palestinians murdered while waiting for aid distribution to feed his family. | The Nation
Brooklyn Public Library librarians recommend eight books to help you understand the present moment in America. | Electric Literature
Is Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes actually the Great American Novel? Why the undersung book deserves more appreciation. | The Paris Review
“In the shadow of rhetorical warfare and actual persecution, trans writing about sex has acquired a curiously contradictory character.” Emily Zhou explores memoirs of trans women’s sexualities. | Defector
What did Agatha Christie actually do that time she disappeared? As it turns out, we still don’t know. | JSTOR Daily

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July 24, 2025

Today, we’re listening to Sinéad O’Connor, considering the responsibility of the narrator in times of genocide, making the case for public broadcasting, and more!

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“I’m still crying about it today.” Neko Case praises Sinéad O’Connor’s catalogue and reflects on the legendary singer-songwriter’s legacy. | Lit Hub Music
Emily Van Duyne on Gaza, genocide, and the responsibility of a narrator: “Call a word a bomb and you out yourself as a Western intellectual, more afraid of an idea than of an MK-84.” | Lit Hub Criticism
Is it wrong for a librarian to ignore her on-the-job duties just to work on her novel? This and other questions answered on Am I the Literary Asshole? | Lit Hub Advice
“It’s the best vaccination against 1970s nostalgia I’ve ever received.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Tanya Talaga examines the intersections of a family mystery and the ongoing impact of genocide against Canada’s First Nations. | Lit Hub Memoir
Iain MacGregor looks inside the final moments before the bombing of Hiroshima and the beginning of the Atomic Age. | Lit Hub History
“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” Read from John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

Elisabeth Egan profiles the pets who call bookstores home. | The New York Times
“My book only briefly mentions Gaza’s parents and kids, and it triggers protests.” Aymann Ismail on what happened when pro-Israel protestors came to his reading. | Slate
Alexandra Billet considers the gutting of public broadcasting, and the necessity of “creative and informational spaces […] shielded from the influence of commerce.” | Jacobin
Susan Choi recalls her time as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. | The Yale Review
Jonathon Atkinson remembers the “inarticulability” of Lyn Hejinian through her book-length poem, Fall Creek. | n+1
From objects to species, Michelle Nijhuis examines why humans choose the things we wish to save. | New York Review of Books

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July 18, 2025

Today, we’re scratching our heads at the Defense Department’s book ban list, considering diaspora and healing, and more!

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The Defense Department wants to ban hundreds of books. Here are the weirdest titles. | The Hub
“Gaza has become the world’s conscience—which is not something anybody asked for.” Hala Alyan discusses diaspora, healing, and her memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Why Rachel Carson’s relationship with Dorothy Freeman and her environmental writing are deeply entwined. | Lit Hub Politics
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Sakina’s Kiss all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of writing into beauty. | Lit Hub Craft
Emily Buchanan rethinks climate grief through the lens of magical realism. | Lit Hub Criticism
“My favorite novels are those that leave you thinking.” Chloe Michelle Howarth considers how pieces of writing should end. | Lit Hub Craft
“The first time I went shooting in America I hit a tree.” Read from Tehila Hakimi’s novel Hunting in America, translated by Joanna Chen. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“It is one of these really interesting and very unusual situations where we have a legend that was widely known and hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages, and then very suddenly in the middle of the 16th century, in the High Renaissance, it’s just completely lost.” Researchers have finally solved a centuries-old literary cold case. | 404 Media
Tori McCandless examines the queer joy of BBC Three’s I Kissed a Girl. | Public Books
Gaby Del Valle investigates how ICE hit lists compiled by right wing groups endanger student protesters. | The Verge
Alexander Chee writes about going to Denny’s: “I will feel a little more alone after that night in some way I will never understand and always try to forget.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Holly Beddingfield explores what it means to navigate the present media landscape as a Zillennial. | Dirt
“Somewhere between lies the truth, that adult and child may as well be two different species for their mutual incomprehensibility.” Barry Petchesky on the otherworldly snowmen of Calvin and Hobbes. | Defector

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Omar Hamad in Gaza: “I once wrote with ink, today I write with ashes.”

Omar Hamad is a Palestinian writer and pharmacist bearing witness to genocide in his home of Gaza. He writes about stolen love, safety and p

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Palestinian writer Omar Hamad bears witness to genocide in his home of Gaza.

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Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza.

Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, and Sarah Bernstein are among the dozens of prominent authors who are auctioning off signed edi

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Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, Sarah Bernstein and other prominent authors are auctioning signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza, a crowdfunding organization made up of disabled people from around the world.

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