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- Remembering the great Tom Stoppard (and a night at the theatre) on his London Remembrance Day. | Lit Hub
- Why do we feel good when a new bomb enters the villa? Anna Peel searches for eternal pantomime love island. | lit hub tv
- William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair“A novel without a hero,” is more relevant than ever. | lit hub criticism
- “Language diversity is one of our most powerful weapons against the diminishment of deep knowledge, the homogenization of culture, the erasure of history, and even some of our health crises.” Many minority languages are in danger of extinction. | Lit Hub History
- Here are this week’s Independent Press top 40 bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Maris Kreizman has ten reasons why you should think about downsizing your book collection. | Lit Hub Advice
- “This is nothing more than a biography for a fool.” 5 book reviews you should read this week. | book marks
- Rachel Aviv tells us about falling in love revolutionary Road And the time when she almost became a psychologist. | Lit Hub in conversation
- “When the army comes, the men disappear / When their wives ask where the men had gone / They are told that the men had not gone Existence.” Read a new poem by Fatima Asghar from the collection daughter of the mountains. | lit hub poetry
- “Clay Lockhart’s screams echoed half a mile down a rain-soaked beach as a storm swept through the Outer Hebrides in late January…” Read from Shea Earnshaw’s new novel, habits of the sea. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “We artistic kids had zines, and there was direct-mail machinery on the right side.” Chris Randle and Isaac Butler discuss Censorship, public art funding, and the erosion of the public sphere. | dirt
- Are you ready for an AI “merger”? Because apparently, it has already started. | Nation
- “The decline of reading didn’t turn the world upside down. It turned the world sideways.” Rose Horovich on The death of reading in the age of infinite information.| atlantic
- Olivia Bass discusses why “there’s always a verbal element” While translating Marguerite Duras. | asymptote
- Remember that guy from VH1 pick up artist? He wrote a book about his AI girlfriend.| wired
- ‘Meta still doesn’t want you to read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ careless people (But they are not refusing anyone). | Los Angeles Times
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