TODAY: In 1812, Charles Dickens is born.
- Paul Morton remembers the legendary master cartoonist Jules Feiffer. | Lit Hub Art
- “I struggle to inherit my mother’s music, picking up what I can and stumbling like a fussy child forward.” Sophia Terazawa on translation, imperialism, and being caught between languages. | Lit Hub Craft
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Geraldine Brooks’ Memorial Days, Ali Smith’s Griff, and Hanif Kureishi’s Shattered all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Josephine Baker recounts her first rainy days in Paris. | Lit Hub Memoir
- What can chatbots teach us about ourselves? “When people deal with computers, they are unconsciously bringing into the situation a lifetime of skills and assumptions about how to interact with other people.” | Lit Hub Technology
- Sarah Viren talks to Lauren Markham: “It is now clear to me that ‘what is the power of words?’ is not an answerable question, or if it is, its answer isn’t static.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “I had high hopes for being friends with an artist, but as it turned out the artist’s wife found me hopelessly uncool…” Read from Corinna Vallianatos’s story collection, Origin Stories. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “What did he carry on that day that we could and could not see? How can there be an elegy without clearly discernible loss?” Kimberly Juanita Brown considers Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem. | The MIT Press Reader
- Christopher Benfey looks at Emily Dickinson’s letters. | New York Review of Books
- “Customers come to us because we’ve known so many of them for years. We are more than booksellers. We are old friends.” How bookstores maintain community after the Los Angeles fires. | Los Angeles Times
- How the road to the Oscars became as dramatic as the scandals in Conclave. | The New Yorker
- “Above all I love her love of children’s language to the extent of dare—try if you can.” Jamieson Webster on Margaret Wise Brown and the noises of children’s books. | The Paris Review
- Three Columbia graduate students are suing the university for discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies. | The Nation
