THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1896, Oscar Wilde’s Salome premieres in Paris.
- LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Molly Beth Griffin on the defiance of a neighborhood • Victoria Blanco on continuing family traditions of organization and resistance • Dana Chiueh finding community (and a little joy) in the club. | Lit Hub Politics
- On the essential connection between feminism and Palestinian liberation: “And they should consider that, for the millions of us longing for the homeland, our diaspora is not a choice but a reality imposed upon the Palestinian people by Israel.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “The more we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, the more we can connect with others, and the easier it becomes to move through our grief.” Why we should never mourn alone. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Eleanor Shearer recommends queer historical fiction by Sarah Waters, Nalo Hopkinson, Robert Jones Jr. and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Keza Macdonald chronicles how Super Mario Bros. became one of the most beloved video games of all time. | Lit Hub Art
- How writing historical fiction helped Janie Chang understand her Chinese parents and her family history. | Lit Hub Craft
- “If Laxness often wrote about what was wicked, ugly, even horrifying, he did so out of a habit of finding beauty in little else.” On the legacy of Iceland’s Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness and A Parish Chronicle. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Virginia Pye explores writing what excites you, regardless of genre. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Her sisters flinched because she was the youngest, but she looked so old.” Read from Allegra Goodman’s new book, This Is Not About Us. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Is Heathcliff white? Jasmine Vojdani looks to the text and the scholars ahead of Emerald Fenell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation, starring (Basque Australian) Jacob Elordi. | Vulture
- “If you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of the writing, you will discover soft, exquisite humanity as its perennial landing.” Michelle Zauner on Infinite Jest at 30. | The Guardian
- On the search for the saviors who will save Wikipedia from AI. | The Dial
- “The books section of a newspaper plays an altogether different role. It does not cater to aficionados; it seeks new recruits.” Becca Rothfeld on the death of Book World. | The New Yorker
- Is the cis literary world okay? (No, probably). | Public Books
- John Yau goes to the movies with John Ashbery: “He once sent me a VHS of Wood’s Orgy of the Dead (1965), starring strippers in a graveyard at night, and guaranteed it was in ‘pristine condition.’” | The Paris Review
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