my earliest reading memoryThe summer my middle sister was born, my mother and I would go to the shops in Cherryvalley in east Belfast to send her messages, and she would buy me the latest issue of Storyteller, which had illustrated stories from around the world. It came with cassette tapes of actors reading stories
Today: In 1908, Salvadoran poet Vicente Acosta died on his birthday. Tarot reader Lisa Stardust examines Sylvia Plath’s connection to her deck. | lit hub criticism How does the expectation that “books are now said to function simultaneously as texts and lifestyle objects” influence cover design in the social media age? | lit hub design
In the twenty-first century, debates about the formation of an anti-Semitic category of Jews intensified following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and debates about colonialism, indigeneity, and ethnic identity. If one thinks of Jews as a diasporic category, the notions of “rooted” and “rootless” or bound and unmoored also come into
Maris Kreizman on the importance of a good reader Who is a better narrator for an audiobook: the book’s author or a professional voice actor? Article continues after ad trick question. The answer is both, and/or, it depends. Let’s leave non-fiction writing out of this discussion because I think almost any personal writing will benefit
When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, Dad gave me his own disposable camera with twenty-four photos. I took two pictures from the window of the plane. I remember thinking that it looked as if animals made of diamonds were floating in water and breaking when they collided with each other. I
AMichael Cunningham, an eight-year-old living in comfortable, concrete, suburban California, was forced to make art before he understood what it was, or could do: for example, a painting of souls ascending to heaven, in which heaven looked like the Griffith Park Observatory and all the dead were depicted in profile because his creator did not
The #1 bestseller that rules both Publishers Weekly And USA Today lists are Heartstopper Volume 6But you won’t find it in this roundup, as most outlets break out both YA and graphic novels on their lists. I’m still mourning the end of Heartstopper, between this final book and the movie. In fact, I’m listening to
The best of literary internet Today: 1888 Raymond Chandler is born. “Classical culture is actually a lot of things, including rape culture.” on rebecca solnit odyssey and the Western literary tradition of silencing women. | lit hub criticism Kohei Saito examines why solutions rooted in capitalism will never stop climate change: “The metabolic relationship between
Edna Bonhomme is the author of Caring for our wounds: an expatriate memoirOut now from Haymarket Books. Below, she recommends three must-read books about colonialism. (Photo credit: Jasmine Valcarcel) All empires suffer from the possibility of their collapse. For the marginalized people born and raised in the midst of empires, some plot and hope for
Edna Bonhomme is the author of Caring for our wounds: an expatriate memoirOut now from Haymarket Books. Below, she recommends three must-read books about colonialism. All empires suffer from the possibility of their collapse. For the marginalized people born and raised in the midst of empires, some plot and hope for their demise. As someone