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- Lisa Yaszek on how Gertrude Barrows Bennett (as Francis Stevens) pioneered dark fantasy. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “In spite of virulent racism, this diverse community of early Brooklynites lived in close quarters and inhabited the same streets and public spaces.” How Brooklyn’s earliest Black residents found empowerment and solidarity. | Lit Hub History
- Christopher Brown explores the porous urban boundaries between humans and animals. | Lit Hub Nature
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How Greenwich Village’s “reputation for attracting iconoclastic, subversive and leftist writers began extending to its music scene” in the 20th century. | Lit Hub Music
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- Are productivity and perfection the keys to good writing? As Rachel Schwartzmann argues, probably not. | Lit Hub Craft
- “—May I begin? —Yes. But do remember we are delicate.” Read from Noémi Lefebvre’s Speak/Stop. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Tishani Doshi explores the transformative power of playing with dolls. | Aeon
- “Why is the law library here requiring incarcerated people fighting for their legal rights to use technology from the late 19th century?” Why word processors should be in prison libraries. | Slate
- On that time when Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, June Jordan, and more iconic writers changed literature forever with a potluck. | The Nation
- Joshua Rothman asks, is culture dying? “Culture used to be something we did for its own sake; now we do it to position ourselves vis-à-vis other people.” | The New Yorker
- Zadie Smith talks to Ezra Klein about identity, privacy, and flip phones. | The New York Times
- Marcello Musto considers Marx and Engles’ many reworkings of Capital, Volume 1. | Jacobin
