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- “The book opens with Lauren’s diary entry dated Saturday, the 20th of July 2024.” Roz Dineen on Parable of the Sower, the book everyone should read now. | Lit Hub Criticism
- On the myth of American “heroification” and adapting James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me. | Lit Hub Politics
- “This Ayodhya was not the small, dusty town in north-central India that lay at the heart of the ‘Hindu-Muslim problem.’” On the deadly manifestations of religious hatred in India. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Mira Ptacin on transforming one’s inner critic: “Each time the harsh voice emerges and I become aware of it, I put on my heart-shaped, rose-colored glasses.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “When a Greek fisherman caught a woman’s body in his net—a marble statue, around five feet tall, missing two arms—I was working for a museum in Los Angeles on the other side of the world.” Read from C. Michelle Lindley’s debut novel, The Nude. | Lit Hub Fiction
- It turns out that Charles Dickens had the secret to TikTok virality all along. | The New York Times
- “Hatred with heritage”: Richard Slotkin on the clash of American mythologies. | The Yale Review
- Amy Estes on what would happen if Ernest Hemingway visited Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club. | McSweeney’s
- Emily Van Duyne talks knowledge production and outing yourself as a Sylvia Plath reader. | Chicago Review of Books
- Liza Donnelly on The New Yorker’s women cartoonists. | Print Mag
- Why re-read books? “Books are miraculous to me because unlike other pleasures involving tangible places, people and things, books can be re-experienced precisely the same way over and over again.” | Juvenescence
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