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- How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I don’t remember the exact content of the poem, but it was the first time I had seen someone write poetry around me. It was very surprising, and I felt that I too could write like that.” Ye Hui on translation and how it feels to finish a poem. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Serena Chopra’s TBR includes work by Susan Briante, Sappho, Christopher Marmolejo and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Walter Mosley explores what a novel is (and explains why it isn’t a machine). | Lit Hub Craft
- Vanessa Miller recommends BIPOC-centered historical fiction by, including work by Sadeqa Johnson, ReShonda Tate, Vanessa Riley and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Ann Patchett’s Whistler, and Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the June. | Book Marks
- “I think I’ve always written stories because I spent all my school vacations at my aunt’s.” Read from Valérie Perrin’s Tata, translated by Hildegarde Serle. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Ishmael Reed considers the strange phenomenon of rappers who support Trump. | The Nation
- “He has deftly escaped these pigeonholes, in part by insuring that each of his books is radically different from the last.” Julian Lucas profiles Colson Whitehead. | The New Yorker
- Jessica Luo explores the uses (and lack thereof) of the Obama Presidential Center. | The Hedgehog Review
- “I think it kind of exemplifies what I try to do with my work, which is to take something quite ordinary and elevate it in a way that you wouldn’t have considered, so in that sense that story is a perfect example of what I think I do as a writer.” Susan Orlean talks to Brendan O’Meara. | Longreads
- Emily C. Hughes on The Omen, Roe v. Wade, and diabolical motherhood. | Defector
- Gina Anne Tam considers two new books that explore what it means to have freedom on the internet. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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