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- “These are political warning shots.” Ellen O’Connell Whittet considers the impact of bomb threats and the rhetoric of school shooters. | Lit Hub Politics
- Aimie K Runyan on why she spent her first literary paycheck on a mug. | Lit Hub Craft
- Peter Mishler talks to Srikanth Reddy about finding the strangeness in the everyday. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “To be Black and gay is to have to deal with the implications of your desire.” Lester Fabian Brathwaite considers the literary and cultural socialization of young Black queer men. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Read “Copper Anniversary,” a poem by Zan de Parry from the collection Cold Dogs: “You woke today with a joyful exclamation / I have grown another wisdom tooth! / Soon again screams from the kitchen.” | Lit Hub Poetry
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- Kathleen DuVal examines how Native Americans put limits on European colonial domination, from her Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Native Nations. | Lit Hub History
- “One thing I’ve noticed, the dumber and more incompetent men are, the more they feel a duty to carry on the line.” Read from Virginie Despentes’ novel Dear Dickhead, translated by Frank Wynne. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “It makes me really sad for the queer kids in these communities, it makes me really sad even for non-queer kids, kids who are learning about people who aren’t like them, you know?” Carmen Maria Machado talks to Tai Caputo about having her books banned. | The Little Hawk
- Hua Hsu profiles Richard Powers and considers what it means for humans to act upon the earth (and for the earth to act upon us). | The New Yorker
- “Odysseus spots land on the horizon once again from the crest of a helping wave.” On how the ancient Greeks used writing to capture the sea. | Aeon
- Sarah Schulman examines the work of painter Alice Neel: “A witness sees other people from a safe distance. A participant shares their vulnerability.” | New York Review of Books
- Rhoda Feng considers Jonathan Lethem’s art writing, which “takes us under the hood, revealing the ways that art and life are coextensive.” | Artforum
- Brea Souders talks to Alice Zoo about chatbots and the relationship between photography and text in her work. | Granta
