Today: In 1938, T.H. White’s sword in the stone is published.
- Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad fathers. | Lit Hub Craft
- Aaron Boehmer considers the future of ethnic studies and academia to be in crisis: “Although no amount of protests, demonstrations, or organizing can revive the dead, perhaps such actions can chart a new path.” | lit hub criticism
- “The N-word felt like it could last a lifetime.” Elizabeth Stordur Pryor remembers experiencing American racism as a child with a famous father. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- On liberating Freud through imagination: “But while pain may be an inevitable consequence of the movement of life, it always happens unconsciously and unknowingly.” | Lit Hub Craft
- A post office that handles letters for the dead tells us about ways to deal with loss. | Lit Hub History
- What even the most vanilla among us can learn from BDSM. | Lit Hub Health
- How the military and corporate forces that developed GPS turned us all into little dots on a map. | Lit Hub Technology
- Danny Elliot explores the morality of embracing her progressive blindness. | Lit Hub Memoirs Why Artificial Light Can Contribute to Your Insomnia. | Lit Hub Health
- “What do I see? A ship?” Read from Keith Ridgway’s new novel, Duneen. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jeffrey Herlihy-Mine, Edward Said, and “Traces of ‘Americanization’.” | public books
- Zia Zia on writing and its limitations both human and artificial intelligence. | mit press reader
- Why are passengers facing difficulties? For literary holidays. | the new York Times
- Caleb Brennan explores The fascist internet nihilism of groper politics. | baffler
- “There are experts for whom clearing and locking someone’s digital records is a matter of passion.” The Real Life Horrors of Cloud Storage In the world of digital surveillance. | new york magazine
