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- It turns out that sitting down to write and stepping up to the starting block aren’t so different. Jade Song on what swimming has taught her about craft. | Lit Hub Memoir
- The Great Bambino wasn’t the only slugger with an unforgettable nickname. Kevin Baker introduces us to Boom-Boom, Ducky-Wucky, and more. | Lit Hub Sports
- “We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.” Hua Hsu examines the visionary work of photographer and activist Corky Lee. | Lit Hub Photography
- “The novel runs on an engine that relentlessly converts suffering, usually of the inner-turmoil variety, into comedic relief.” 5 reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- As time goes by, maybe love only grows stronger. Carys Davies considers the dynamic of older couples in literature and “fiction that crackles with the jeopardy of two people who have less time in front of them than they have behind them.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Do it for the aesthetic. These are the best book covers of March. | Lit Hub Design
- “while some details might be left out, the khuốc bird must at all costs be mentioned in the history of our village, i am currently writing a history of the village, never would my father have imagined that i could write a history of the village…” Read from Nguyễn Thanh Hiện’s Chronicles of a Village, translated into English for the first time by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng. | Lit Hub Fiction
- In this close read, Brandon Taylor makes a case for Zola’s “moral arguments against war, convention, the petty gods of the bourgeoisie” | London Review of Books
- On the dinner party that launched the Harlem Renaissance | The New York Times
- “The Paper Menagerie,” universities in crisis, and arguing in defense of imagination. | Public Books
- Sameer Pandya revisits A Passage to India at 100. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “One set of universities serves a colonized, brutalized people, and the other, the colonizer.” Esmat Elhalaby explores the intellectual history of genocide in Gaza. | The Baffler
- “Medieval theologians believed in the king’s two bodies, a Body natural and a Body politic—a theory that symbolized the nation-state.” On monarchy, illness, and Kate Middleton. | New York Review of Books
