TODAY: In 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford for publishing The Necessity of Atheism.
“Its name is vection: an illusory self-motion in the absence of any actual bodily movement in space.” On the what train travel and reading fiction have in common. | Lit Hub Criticism
Steven W. Thrasher interviews Martyrs of Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics
Alex Trimble Young remembers the late Stanley Crawford. | Lit Hub Criticism
Alvina Chamberland on why she chose to be the cover model for her own novel: “I want to take up as much space as possible, both body and soul.” | Lit Hub Photography
What does it mean to write after death? Joyelle McSweeney explores the creative process that grief provokes. | Lit Hub Craft
“I am not writing alone. I am writing with witches—those who have gone before, those who are brewing, and those who will rise.” Intan Paramaditha on rethinking literary influences. | Lit Hub Craft
Anna Smaill considers the liminality of the fictional store and encourages you to read between the aisles. | Lit Hub Criticism
Read from Griffin Hansbury’s new novel, Some Strange Music Draws Me In. | Lit Hub Fiction
“I followed Lorca’s contrails south and found that his New York had been demolished and substituted.” On searching for Federico García Lorca in contemporary New York. | The Paris Review
Giri Nathan interviews Hanif Abdurraqib about writing, basketball, and buying flowers on the weekends. | Vulture
On unions, solidarity, and the work of Herb Mills: “In 1984, his local boycotted a ship bound for apartheid South Africa for ten days.” | Jacobin
“In some ways, the novel is indicative of my changing relationship with the folk tale.” Irene Connelly interviews Téa Obreht. | Electric Literature
“History cannot contain our story. It never could.” Jason Allen-Paisant on translating Aimé Césaire and how poetry reaches beyond history. | Words Without Borders