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- “Classical culture is actually a lot of things, including rape culture.” on rebecca solnit odyssey and the Western literary tradition of silencing women. | lit hub criticism
- Kohei Saito examines why solutions rooted in capitalism will never stop climate change: “The metabolic relationship between humans and nature was once a cycle – a process that can be represented as a cycle. But the movement of capital is one-way.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
- Should an author narrate their audiobook, or an actor? Maris Kreizman explores the importance of good performance. | lit hub criticism
- Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell, authors whose recent books focus on the culture wars, discuss censorship, porn, capitalism, and art. | Lit Hub in conversation
- “People are objects, afraid of each other because they are nightmares.” 5 book reviews you should read this week. | book marks
- Jim Downs reflects on the work of Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepore, Kevin Kruse, and other public historians who remind us why we should not repeat humanity’s mistakes. | Lit Hub History
- Victoria Chang’s TBR includes work by Amina Cain, Karen Solly, Cecily Parks, and more! | lit hub criticism
- Here are this week’s Independent Press top 40 bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, Dad gave me his disposable camera with twenty-four photos.” Read from Meg Richardson’s new novel, Heaven Pawn. | Lit Hub Fiction
- The return of Kerry Baraka the gods must be madThe most successful African film of all time. | equator
- Katie Porter is “closing the door” on her gubernatorial aspirations, and Pivot towards… Bookstagram. | cut
- Oscar Duffield looks at recent English translations Two eighteenth-century epic poems originally composed in Gaelic. | asymptote
- As the early books of Nancy Drew and Miss Marple fall into the public domain, it’s time to ask Who is the master of stories of female spies. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- How Reaction to a teenage journalist’s reporting A high school newspaper staffer forced to become lawyers. | wired
- Emily Laskin translates two pieces from russian: one by Lesya Lapina on the homophobia of Putin’s Center for Combating Extremism, the other by Sergei Hughes on “an older, cooler version of the Internet.” | dial
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