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- “For years I have been trying to obtain Greek citizenship, which, if one of your parents was born in Greece, can apparently be a straightforward process.” On experiencing the homeland of one’s family amidst sorrow. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- Fiona Sampson explores what makes a literary biography literary. | Lit Hub Craft
- How leprosy was used as a bio-weapon against indigenous Hawaiians. | Lit Hub History
- “To be more precise, I felt like my life had kind of record-skipped from my late twenties to my mid-thirties.” What our attitudes toward aging reveal about us. | Lit Hub Health
- Today in literary history. Henry is released from prison (presumably despite not committing the crime). | Lit Hub History
- Chef Nephi Craig examines the need to preserve native cuisine. | Lit Hub Food
- “I’m lit on Tuesdays. The light isn’t just spreading across me. It’s spitting and shining. It feels like a second skin.” Read Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s story “Wild Light” from the new issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “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
- 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
- Bruce Handy surveys designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast’s works for children. | the new York Times
- “But even by poetic standards, Margaret Avison was an odd duck.” On the difficult struggle of publishing a poet’s biography. | walrus
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