Today: In 1929, Anne Frank was born, and in 1942 she received a diary for her birthday.
- If literacy is declining, why are bookshops booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Korean poets and their translators have paired poetry collections with K-pop albums. | Lit Hub on Translation
- Did you know that the Mayflower Puritans came from a town called Scrooby? | Lit Hub History
- From Aristotle to Virgil, ancient writers used bees to test memory and knowledge. | lit hub criticism
- How sitting on the judge’s bench increased Jacqueline St. John’s “awareness of language.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Deb Olin Unfurth earth 7Andrea Wolf’s touristand dave eggers’ contrapposto convenience among all Best reviewed books of the week. | book marks
- Claire Fuller explores what writers can learn from sculpture. | Lit Hub Craft
- ”It’s been seven hours and thirty-five days since she took away her love.” Read “Authority,” from Sarah Brownstein’s new collection, baby in a box. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Matthew Cheney admits Early stories by Clive Barker and Joel Lane In the context of Margaret Thatcher’s England. | reactor
- What is poetry? Jordan Castro is looking for the answer to that question Chelsea Minis in the works. | paris review
- How about stories about a lighthouse keeper named Elias Thorne Chatbots escaped control. | 404 media
- Jesse Green details the discovery For Thornton Wilder’s last play. | the new York Times
- Lavinia Spalding tells Cherry Lucas Rowlands About editing Best Women’s Travel Writing series: “I think grief makes us more sensitive, and so when we travel everything we experience – all the unexpected beauty and tenderness that comes with travel – can be heightened.” | longreads
- eric becker watches Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo’s first encyclical“A work of taking a position in the debates that have fragmented Catholicism since the mid-20th century.” | Nation
