Doting moms, little societies, and other endearing cockroach traits. | Lit Hub
“I was drawn to neuroscience for the same reasons that I was drawn to writing.” Temi Oh in praise of (neuro)science fiction. | Lit Hub Science
As we count down to the second annual Refocus Film Festival, Gyasi Hall talks to Lizzy Goodman about the fleeting amateur spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom. | Lit Hub Music & Film
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, William Boyd’s The Romantic, and Patti Hartigan’s August Wilson: A Life all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
“At the risk of taking wordplay too seriously, I’ll note that there is a name for what is happening here, grammatically. The word is its own mouthful: ‘nominalization.’” Lauren Michele Jackson on novelty coinages. | The New Yorker
Adam Kirsch considers Zadie Smith and the young Gen X novelists. | Harper’s
“I wanted to write a poem about how the extreme heat of the ocean is breaking my heart, but the whales beat me to it.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs on making sense of images of a climate in crisis. | Harper’s Bazaar
Elizabeth Metzger interviews the anonymous creator of the Instagram account @poetryisnotaluxury. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Molly Templeton explores the ritual of rearranging your books. | Tor
