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- There will never be another Wikipedia, “one of the strangest and most outlandish successes of its time.” | Lit Hub Technology
- In honor of their new book, Stellar Smoke, we asked Tanaïs some questions about writing, Mulholland Drive, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Are books over? Are you the asshole if you think so? | Lit Hub Advice
- Steven Thrasher looks at three new books that examine Joe Biden’s support for Israel and his relationship with the press. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Sometimes Hanawalt’s perspective veers into the horrifying, and the transition from Richard Scarry to Extremely Scary can be shocking.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Why are we so uneasy about pubic hair? Judy Wearing explores perceptions of women’s bodies across times and cultures. | Lit Hub History
- On the Puritans’ legacy and the contradictions of American power: “In America, founded by Puritans yet propelled by markets, the conflict between self-abnegation and self-indulgence has been uniquely sharp.” | Lit Hub History
- “Outside, we play House. My cousin Mandy, my cousin Yangyang, and me.” Read from K-Ming Chang’s new novel, Needlemouth. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “But how do you change minds? Tsai, Chang, and Chiang all responded the way one would expect bookstore owners to: the transformative power of reading.” Kelly Kong reports on Taiwan’s “bookstore revolution.” | The Nation
- “You pay attention to his attention.” A.O. Scott on John Berger’s antidote to the infinite scroll. | The New York Times Magazine
- How psychedelics became the technofascist drug of choice. | Dissent
- What happens when publications keep pivoting to Substack? | Defector
- Willis Jenkins remembers Wendell Berry, “the farmer-prophet of rural Kentucky.” | The Hedgehog Review
- Stores can’t keep Sally Rooney’s books in stock after it was announced that they’ll no longer be sold in the UK. | The Guardian
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