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Today: In 1592, an epidemic of bubonic plague caused London’s theaters to close for nearly 16 months.
- Why the aging millennial experience of American life is a cycle of getting your hopes up and disappointed. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- Justin Ellis explores the labor history and racial solidarity of mid-century Minneapolis. | Lit Hub History
- These nine books by Fadi Zaghmout, Mohammed Abdelnaby, Samar Yazbek and others reflect on the strange life in the Arab world. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most overlooked story collection helped Christa Diamond write a Los Angeles novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- Terria Smith recommends anti-colonial travel stories by Tate-Michelle Copomasy, Noé Alvarez, Jamaica Kincaid, and others. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Richard Louv makes the case for slowing down and paying attention to nature. | lit hub nature
- The 21 new books published today include titles from Maggie Haberman, Eve Babitz, and Daniel Kraus! |Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I’m drenched in sweat, twisting it with very little resistance on the knobs. Flushing that lactic acid. Shoulders hunched down, triceps and biceps spiraling.” Read Haley Elizabeth Newton’s new novel, Agnes lives! | Lit Hub Fiction
- David Denby explores the long history of failed conversions odyssey (And wonder if Christopher Nolan can break this sequence). | the new Yorker
- Imogen arrives at West-Knight’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Check out our current crossword boom. | slate
- Craft Babble: Lincoln Mitchell on the multiplicity of fictional POVs. | counter craft
- Claire Woodcock reports Mass transfer of children’s and young students’ books For adult sections of public libraries. | 404 media
- Richard Fallon explores Ancient and imaginary creatures of “Lost World” fantasy. | public domain review
- “Currently we are culturally immersed in this kind of genealogy work, so much so that sometimes it can feel fallow, like finding that hot rare track for a mixtape.” bradford nordine on kiss George Whitmore’s nebraska tools for the modern world. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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