TODAY: In 1967, Alice B. Toklas dies.
- John Keene traces the life and work of Essex Hemphill, an early poetic chronicler of Black queer experience. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Step inside the natural and political landscape of the Carpathian Mountains: “It is a strange, but familiar argument, often repeated by nationalist governments across eastern Europe. They’re our trees, and we’ll cut down as many as we like.” | Lit Hub Nature
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “Rigor doesn’t equal perfection.” Jonathan Tarleton on research (and why sometimes, it’s okay not to know). | Lit Hub Craft
- Jennifer Lucy Allan on the millennia-long relationship between humans and hands-on creation. | Lit Hub History
- “The dog heralded Ketill’s arrival before any of us knew he was coming.” Read from Nathaniel Ian Miller’s novel, Red Dog Farm. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Does my father’s journey away from home and back to it four decades later deserve the name of an epic? If not, what form should my father’s story take?” Viet Thanh Nguyen on migration and family. | The Paris Review
- Van Gosse asks if scholars will take a stand against scholasticide in Gaza. | The Nation
- Nicole Eustace considers three books about the lives and histories of Indigenous people in North America before European imperialism. | New York Review of Books
- “Who belongs to a language? To whom does a language belong?” Mia You on poets and translation. | Poetry
- How publishers are preparing for Trump’s tariffs. | Publishers Weekly
- “And suddenly, there it was right in front of me: a dead pufferfish on the sand.” Lauren Markham on how we memorialize what we’re losing to climate change. | Broadcast
