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- Alexandra R. DeRuiz on recovering and preserving Mexico’s trans history: “I feel an obligation and a responsibility to not only visibilize but also recover and vindicate the struggles of the LGBT movement.” | Lit Hub History
- “The woman in my mind had a certainty about rootedness I had never achieved.” Diana McCaulay on finding your story in that of your ancestors. | Lit Hub Craft
- Rebe Huntman recommends memoirs that show the many sides of Cuba by Ruth Behar, Daisy Hernández, Alma Gillermoprieto, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “For me it was cathartic, almost spiritual, to have these ugly truths articulated.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Nussaibah Younis considers 10 essential novels showcasing the literary culture of the Middle East. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I’m kidnapping a child. I try to push this thought away, but it keeps coming back as we go down the elevator, say hi to Chico, pass the gates.” Read from Giovana Madalosso’s novel The Tokyo Suite, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Dan Kois explores the afterlives of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. | Slate
- “Dworkin, at her most successful, attempts a feminism of greater cogency and commitment than much of what has been on offer today.” Moira Donegan on Andrea Dworkin’s newly reissued Right-Wing Women. | New York Review of Books
- Amanda Fortini considers literature’s obsession with blue. | T Magazine
- Gilbert Ahnee and Ariel Saramandi on fiction, journalism, and the Mauritian novel. | Asymptote
- Daniel Soar meditates on The Brothers Karamazov and its many translations. | London Review of Books
- Betsy Golden Kellem traces the history of double features. | JSTOR Daily
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