Today: In 1909, Sarah Orne Jewett is born.
- Andrew McKenzie-McHarg explores iconic conspiracy theorist Carl Oglesby’s idea of a Yankees vs. Cowboys war. | Lit Hub History
- Maggie McKinley reflects on Joan Didion’s “future-oriented” nostalgia. | lit hub criticism
- “I would never blame them. But being around Americans is the last thing I can do when this country is bombing my country.” Iranian writer Shohreh Laisi on the war and her mother. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- Why don’t time travel stories always need to be cautionary tales? | Lit Hub Craft
- “The more natural or common something is considered to be to us in our everyday lives, in fact, the more difficult it becomes for the historian to reconstruct it.” On collecting as a family duty. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- How Africa’s Crops Built American Agriculture. | Lit Hub Food
- “When they were little, Nettie and Gee said their prayers asking God why He made them cousins instead of sisters.” Read “The Thing About You” from T Clark’s new collection, Want it all (and I can’t get nothing). | Lit Hub Fiction
- in today Betteridge’s rule of headlines: Will you let me go? AI Michael Caine read you odyssey? | the new York Times
- “You may not have pie-in-the-sky optimism, but optimism rooted in fact and history and the politics of change is something we all desperately need, especially young people.” Dave Zirin and Andrew Holter discuss the legacy of Howard Zinn. | boston review
- McKenzie Prillman believes The past and future of the SAT. | smithsonian magazine
- Fewer Public Libraries Are Showing PrideFor reasons that are unfortunately (politically) obvious. | 404 media
- Should writers be read? Should cartoonists be critics? Hagai Palevski considers these discourses and more as he examines cartoonist Seth’s SethFemera essays and interviews. | comics journal
- “These cases not only underscore the lies of the conservative majority but also reveal what a confusing category privacy itself is.” Samuel Haneke believes Our right to privacy is ending. | baffler
