TODAY: In 1932, John Updike is born.
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“By definition, the war reporter seeks out trauma.” Dan O’Brien on the essential value—and deep cost—of reporting from conflict zones. | Lit Hub Journalism
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More Hollywood or Hallyu? Juhea Kim weighs in on the upcoming series adaptation of Pachinko. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Ross Showalter considers the translation that must happen between sign language and the written word. | Lit Hub
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Dinitia Smith revisits The Golden Bowl, Henry James’s final, most difficult novel. | Lit Hub Criticism
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“A novel is also a thing you make, like any other craft, by doing it wrong a bunch of times first.” Michele Herman on trying to capture a disappearing Greenwich Village. | Lit Hub
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New titles by Elena Ferrante, Susan Straight, Fintan O’Toole, and Eloghosa Osunde all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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Laura Sackton recommends books that take an inventive approach to blending languages. | Book Riot
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Eric Jager on the early stages of adapting a book for film. | Inside Higher Ed
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“In Handke’s literary universe, only the self can be the final arbiter of meaning.” Ruth Franklin considers the work of Peter Handke, “literature’s most controversial Nobel laureate.” | The New Yorker
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Pico Iyer explores the literary tradition of wandering. | Orion
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“As women, we give up so much, as though we were ourselves made up of cake that we cut into pieces and hand out to hungry mouths.” Heather O’Neill on the subversive power of women feasting. | The Walrus
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Rob Madole on Neal Stephenson, who “might be the most influential novelist among business tycoons since Ayn Rand.” | The Baffler
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Reconsidering the Book of Job. | Slate
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