The best of literary internet
- Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways in which women writers balance creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft
- How Jane Austen destroyed the romance she had mastered by writing it emma. | lit hub biography
- How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary Internet, examines “the depressing effects of technology on contemporary life” in her new collection, frenzy. | lit hub criticism
- “Osip Mandelstam was deprived of the right to work for any publication or publishing house; translation works were cancelled, his writings went unpublished.” Megan Marshall on the parallel terror of Stalin and Trump. | Lit Hub History
- David E. Nye believes The optical illusion of American progress. | mit press reader
- Jeff Goodwin Explores oft-erased marxism Web Du Bois. | Jacobean
- Kelly Daly rereads Mark Twain As the world burns. | etc magazine
- How Palestinians are building digital archives In the face of genocide. | wired
- quinta jurassic watches Complete lack of investigation into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Prettysix months later. | atlantic
- rosemary counter dig Fascinating, lesser-known details of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s lifeFrom Pa’s precarious financial situation to the Plains serial killers. | Vanity Fair
- “Although not much of what he writes is very interesting, Nazir himself is shaping up to be a strangely fascinating character.” laura miller on Zameer Nazir defends his alleged AI-generated story. | slate
- Stephen Mihm explores “the deadly revelation in the middle of the sermon” which inspired Melvil Dewey to create the Dewey Decimal System. | smithsonian magazine
- Why isn’t copyright enough? To protect writers from having their work stolen by AI. | dial
- “We artistic kids had zines, and there was direct-mail machinery on the right side.” Chris Randle and Isaac Butler discuss Censorship, public art funding, and the erosion of the public sphere. | dirt
- Olivia Bass discusses why “there’s always a verbal element” While translating Marguerite Duras. | asymptote
- Are you ready for an AI “merger”? Because apparently, it has already started. | Nation
- Rachel Aviv talks to Lucy McKeon about Relationship between parents and children And his new book, You Won’t Get Free From This: Stories of Mothers and Daughters. | broadcast
- Abigail Susik investigates Andre Breton’s pessimism. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- hua su mark The past and future of Silicon Valley’s Highway 85: “There was celebration all over the road that day. I remember walking up the ramp and seeing the road stretching for miles.” | places
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