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- Howard Norman talks to Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in twenty-five years. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “If the infant is primitive so is its earliest vice, jealousy—probably the most innate vice of all.” The late Elspeth Barker on the most human of experiences. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Ela Lee Recommends Celste Ng, Brit Bennett, Ella King, and more readings on biracial identity. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Janet Manley and Lauren Oyler discuss judgement, reviews, and intellectual anxiety. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Not everyone clicks, but the people that I develop authentic relationships with will always be a part of my community.” Jenny Irish leads a roundtable discussion with Kalani Pickhart, Winslow Schmelling, Christina D’Antoni, and Arya Naidu on community, craft, and ghosts. | Lit Hub Craft
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Read “One Function of the Line Is to Order, Another Is to Cut,” a poem by Zefyr Lisowski from her collection, Girl Work. | Lit Hub Poetry
- A different kind of magic mushroom: Nicholas P. Money considers the role of fungi in treating the body and the mind. | Lit Hub Science
- “After my new eyeglasses, I start noticing new things: the man working at the cocktail bar wears cummerbunds that make his shoulders look higher, thicker, closer to his earlobes.” Read Kim Chinquee’s story, “Chickens,” which appears in the latest issue of NOON. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Keisha N. Blain talks to Amrita Chakrabarti Myers about the widely unknown story of Julia Chinn and what her narrative reveals about power dynamics built around race and gender. | Public Books
- “I’m interested in how, in a world that values speed, the slow writer learns to tolerate the uncertainty that comes with the long project.” In praise of slow writers. | The Millions
- Diane Seuss talks poetic rage, Andy Warhol, and the namby-pamby-ness of hope. | Interview
- “Intense anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and what the Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said described as ‘Orientalism’ has underwritten the West’s perpetual wars, sieges, and onslaughts against the Middle East.” Read Hammer & Hope’s special issue on Palestine, featuring work by Angela Y. Davis, Hala Alyan, Arundhati Roy, and more. | Hammer & Hope
- Dana Stevens on having Judith Butler as a dissertation advisor and their work in the context of their latest book: “What Judith Butler was for me 25 years ago, they now are to whoever cares to read them: a born teacher.” | Slate
- Ben Lerner examines his favorite James Schuyler poems as a belated birthday honor. | The Paris Review
