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- “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
- From Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed to Brad Lander, Steven W. Thrasher examines the emerging Democratic coalition united by criticism of Israel. | Lit Hub Politics
- Why is writing alternative text image descriptions a task of literary translation? | Lit Hub Technology
- April Davila explores the neuroscience of writer’s block (and what we can do to overcome it). | Lit Hub Craft
- Richard Fallon considers Louis to be Pope Gratacap The New Northlandand the literary theory of the lost world. | public domain review
- what is the value of Standardized testing in the age of AI? | slate
- “The most interesting thing How football explains the world It’s this tension between being a travelogue and being an airport book.” Alex Shepherd revisits Franklin Foer’s 2004 best-selling book. | new republic
- a fresh coat of paint odyssey: : MJ Franklin reflects on marketing a 3,000-year-old epic. | the new York Times
- “Asimov provides us with no keys to encounter machines because encounter is not a problem we cleanly inhabit and then just as cleanly discard.” Nina Begush and Nicole Oliva on Asimov and AI. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Ed Simon searches for Charles Brockden Brown Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Taleoften considered The first American Gothic novel. | paris review
- “What to do with the creative impulse still alive at the end of life, even when it feels like there is nothing left to say?” David Schurman Wallace honors Fanny Howe posthumously this bad book. | Poem
- Bookseller Anna Bell talks about His brother Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for carrying a box of zines: “If you were going to tell me that the contents of the box, the zine, the stickers, the poem, that’s what constitutes a crime – then we have a bigger problem here, which is free speech.” | new republic
- While America faces a literacy crisis, Teachers in Jefferson County, Mississippi are doing something right. | wired
- The return of Kerry Baraka the gods must be madThe most successful African film of all time. | equator
- Emily Laskin translates two pieces from russian: one by Lesya Lapina on the homophobia of Putin’s Center for Combating Extremism, the other by Sergei Hughes on “an older, cooler version of the Internet.” | dial
- Oscar Duffield looks at recent English translations Two eighteenth-century epic poems originally composed in Gaelic. | asymptote
- “Drama, he insisted, attempted to avoid definition. This strategy of avoidance leaves us staring at a meaningless landscape, which in turn is the source of our entertainment and amusement.” Robert Zaretsky on waiting for godot. | American scholar
- “I loved New York, but after writing about it in this particular way for seven years, I love New York even more now.” Natalie Weiner interviews Colson Whitehead. | turncoat
- What does it do A Homerist Thinks About Christopher Nolan odyssey? | hyperallergic
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