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- Are you an American curious about queer Canada’s past? Rose Sutherland recommends a crash course in historical fiction, including Suzette Meyr, Heather O’Neil, Loghan Paylor, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “For every thoughtful essay about the ethics of true crime, there are countless folks who are happy to produce or consume it without much thought at all.” On the sensitive nature of book promotion. | Lit Hub Craft
- Cappy Yarbrough on dyslexia, her complicated relationship with books, and working at a bookstore: “Instead of making me recoil from books, my struggle with dyslexia ignites a passion in me for reading.” | Lit Hub Bookstores
- What happens when your brain feels “like dust?” Amanda Montell on the mental magic tricks we play on ourselves. | Lit Hub Health
- “My father’s death feels like it was twenty years ago but it was more than forty-five.” Anne Lamott on growing old and making peace with death. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Fiona Williams examines what happens when you cross the contemporary novel with nature writing (and recommends some books to read outside). | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Minerva Hunter stumbled into the protest by accident, a cacophony of voices swerving her off her path.” Read from Jen Silverman’s new novel, There’s Going to Be Trouble. | Lit Hub Fiction
- An interview with Nancy Fraser after Cologne University canceled her visiting professorship because she signed a letter in support of Palestine. | Jacobin
- Vanessa Ogle dives into the shadow world of the shipping industry. | New York Review of Books
- “As I read on the uptown-bound train, Bob is washing Ed’s corpse; I check the time on my phone, then see that my Twitter feed is mostly Palestinian corpses covered in blood and ash. I cannot disconnect the two images.” On who is afforded a non-politicized death. | The Baffler
- Rafael Frumkin considers literatures of autism and the right to authorship: “I am instantly flattened and reduced. What it means to be autistic is instantly flattened and reduced. The categories of “autistic” and “author” are forcibly decoupled.” | Electric Literature
- Revisiting Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays and considering a Hollywood literary tradition. | The Los Angeles Times
- “But young children are the most vicious literary critics, because they have no respect for the idea that they should like something.” On Alligator Pie and the nuances of children’s poetry. | The Walrus
