TODAY: In 1849, Anne Brontë (far left, with sisters Emily and Charlotte) dies at 29.
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Yan Lianke explores the overlooked contemporary Chinese literature of mythorealism. | Lit Hub Criticism
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What writing a novel and tending a garden have in common: Naheed Phiroze Patel in praise of lifelong projects. | Lit Hub
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Who was Leonardo da Vinci in boyhood and midlife? | Lit Hub Biography
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“I think humor keeps us alive.” Dennard Dayle recommends funny books for an unfunny world. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Elif Batuman’s Either/Or, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Translating Myself and Others, and Colin Barrett’s Homesickness all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
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Hannah Mary McKinnon with 11 of the most unforgettable female leads in crime fiction. | CrimeReads
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Americans aren’t numb to mass shootings, writes Alex Shephard, we just haven’t “invented a word to describe what it’s like to live in a reality that’s so galling, and so stupid.” | The New Republic
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Marc Tracy explores how Hollywood and the media fueled the political rise of J.D. Vance. | The New York Times
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How is BookTok affecting the way we talk about books? | Book Riot
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Unsurprisingly, George R.R. Martin does not appreciate being harangued by fans about when he’ll finish The Winds of Winter. | Esquire
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How Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood found understanding in the horoscope readers of her family and the Asian diaspora. | Harper’s Bazaar
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Iggy Pop and Ottessa Moshfegh discuss raging against the machine. | Document Journal
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In response to news about book bans in the US, Margaret Atwood is creating an “unburnable” edition of her book The Handmaid’s Tale. | The Guardian
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Elizabeth Weil visits Emily Gould and Keith Gessen at home to talk parenting, writing memoir, and the literary internet. | The Cut
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“I’ve begun to question my life’s relentless, unending hustle.” Michael Dirda talks life on the books beat and returning to the classics. | The Washington Post
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Adrienne Raphel explores L. Frank Baum’s pre-Oz life as a department store window dresser. | JSTOR Daily
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Brooke LaMantia reports from the Pen America Literary Gala, where book bans and free speech were at the forefront of conversation. | New York Magazine
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Is contemporary gay literature broken, or are we simply “caught in a mimetic cage of your own making”? | Sweater Weather
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Are cookbooks becoming more literary? | Bon Appetit
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Jeff VanderMeer considers The Left Hand of Darkness as a climate change parable. | Orion Magazine
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“Trying to recreate the original high of a singular reading experience has diminishing returns.” Maris Kreizman looks at the legacy of Gone Girl, ten years later. | Esquire
Also on Lit Hub:
Elifi Batuman asks, “Why am I taking pointers on lesbian sex from Louis CK?” • Read an excerpt from Nell Zink’s new novel, Avalon • Lily King on the childhood recipes we carry with us • A.J. Bermudez considers writing and mourning • Xu Xi reflects on the transnational literary life • On Jane Austen, Kazuo Ishiguro, and the unhappy happy ending • Robbie Quinn on becoming his wife’s writing partner at the end of her life • Nicole Melleby on writing for young queer readers • Elizabeth Hardwick on the capable coolness of Faye Dunaway • How Virginia Woolf helped Diana Goetsch write a trans memoir • Gabe Montesanti recalls a pivotal meeting with the late George Hodgman • Ben Westhoff investigates a dear friend’s murder • Two essays about life in wartime Ukraine • How Shakespeare engages with Buddhism’s dukkha • Andrea Marcolongo on running to live and running to write • Behind the creation of the first female superhero comic • Nikole Hannah-Jones and Gio Swaby discuss portraiture that uplifts Black women • What can dogs teach us about courage? • Lisa Russ Spaar on publishing her debut novel in her sixties • Sarah McCoy in praise of the literary happy ending • Why Primo Levi’s work was rejected in post-war Italy • The treacherous world of New York City real estate • When London got the Marilyn Monroe fever • “I felt betrayed by a place I had wanted to be in for so long”