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- Lisa Ko, Lottie Hazell, and more. These are the best audiobooks of April. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The free market was untouchable and blameless, because neoliberal ideology, pervasive as the air we breathed, made it unthinkable to blame the free market.” Natalie Foster on building a better America. | Lit Hub Politics
- Did Jane Austen like music? And should we care? Gillian Dooley has the answers. | Lit Hub Biography
- “Witnessing him move words around the page is like seeing an acrobat netless on the high wire.” Marc Berley on editing the work of Gordon Lish. | Lit Hub Craft
- “They’ve never liked baths, always too aware of all the feet and dead skin cells and pubic hairs that have passed across the bath’s porcelain floor, but this summer they don’t care anymore.” Read from Emet North’s new novel, In Universes. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Heidi Seaborn on three new Agnes Martin-inspired poetry collections by Lauren Camp, Victoria Chang and Brian Teare. | Adroit Journal
- Are we reading wrong? Maybe. | The Atlantic
- Prepare yourself. A deep dive into the most essential works of Joan Didion. | The New York Times
- “There is, obviously, a horrific side to any mining, not just in the environmental toll but in the human costs as well.” Cobalt, capitalism, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- What does it mean to be an enemy of death? On Elias Canetti’s Book Against Death. | The Paris Review
- How did Penguin Books choose the penguin? Matthew Willis investigates. | JSTOR Daily
