Today: In 1938, T.H. White’s sword in the stone is published. Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad fathers. | Lit Hub Craft Aaron Boehmer considers the future of ethnic studies and academia to be in crisis: “Although no amount of protests, demonstrations, or organizing can revive
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Today: In 1929, Anne Frank was born, and in 1942 she received a diary for her birthday. If literacy is declining, why are bookshops booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores Korean poets and their translators have paired poetry collections with K-pop albums. | Lit Hub on Translation Did you know