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TODAY: In 1874, Gertrude Stein is born.
- “Where criticism interprets and contextualizes, trolling dismisses, and shitposting removes context entirely.” Alex Rollins Berg on Paul Schrader’s auteur-to-edge lord trajectory. | Lit Hub Film
- Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books coming in February. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “So much / for poetry / and no more.” Read “Postpositivity in Spring,” a poem by Oli Hazzard from the collection Sleepers Awake. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Christopher Spaide recommends new poetry collections by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Steven Duong, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Tom Lamont reflects on novels about unconventional families, including work by Kazuo Ishiguro, Elizabeth Bowen, Hilary Mantel, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Hibernate with new SFF this month from Edward Ashton, Karen Thompson Walker, Gareth L. Powell, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I chance upon Miss Lamb repeatedly the following days and by ‘chance upon’ I mean I follow her and observe her through keyholes as she polishes grates.” Read from Virginia Feito’s novel, Victorian Psycho. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “When verification comes, the tone is final: Gone. Gone. Gone.” Jessica Abughattas’ dispatches from the Eaton Fire. | Orion
- Matthew Wills looks back on the 1948 murder of journalist George Polk. | JSTOR Daily
- Lucy Sante on the life and work of photographer Larry Fink. | New York Review of Books
- “That my book had ended up in the lap of the very thing I was investigating was stunning to me, but few others seemed surprised.” Justin Nobel on searching for Simon & Schuster’s radioactive oil waste. | Harper’s
- Here’s a little Monday treat: A literary crossword puzzle. | Electric Literature
- Faith Lawrence on Rilke and the art of listening: “The idea that listening might be a gateway to a kind of transcendence is echoed in a ‘sound’ reverie that Rilke presents alongside his school story.” | Aeon
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